Fairly v. Albritton
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Harrison county.' Hon. Wm. D. Bullard, Special Chancellor. Suit by Mrs. Jennie T. Albritton against Mrs. N. M. Fairly. From a decree for complainant, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Harrison county.' Hon. Wm. D. Bullard, Special Chancellor. Suit by Mrs. Jennie T. Albritton against Mrs. N. M. Fairly. From a decree for complainant, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. We do not contend that the list of lands filed under sections 4367 and 2935, of the Code of 1906, being the same as section 4, chapter 67 of the Laws of 1902, in. force at the time of the tax sale herein involved, must be filed within thirty days and counsel is in error in averring that we have attempted to thus construe the requirements…
1Opinion of the CourtHolden, J.
This case is here on appeal the second time. See Albritton v. Fairley, 116 Miss. 705, 77 So. 651. It involves the validity of the tax title to a lot in Gulfport. In our former decision of reversal we held that certain oral and documentary proof could be made in aid of the ambiguous description in the tax deed. When the case was heard the second time in the lower court, the appellant, who was defendant there, presented a new defense to the action, which is that the tax sale was void because the tax collector failed to immediately file in the office of the chancery clerk a list of the lands…
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