Edwards v. Hall

David Newbern, Judge.

This suit was brought to cancel a tax deed and a subsequent lease from the tax deed grantee and to remove the deed and the lease as clouds from the title asserted by the appellants. The chancellor, in part, denied the relief sought, and an appeal was taken to the Arkansas Supreme Court which transferred the case to us pursuant to Rule 29(3). The issues are (1) whether a separate assessment of the mineral interests was proper and (2) whether a tax deed grantee’s interest is limited to the interest of the person in whose name the property was assessed.and subsequently…