Norris v. Coley

JTish, Justice.

Tbe tax-collector of Baker county issued an execution ■against lots of land 254 and 255 in tbe 8'tb district of said •county, for tbe amount of taxes assessed on said lots for tbe year 1892, as property unreturned for taxation, tbe owner •of -wbicb was unknown. Armed witb tbis execution as bis *548authority, the sheriff of the county levied upon, advertised and sold said lots, J. T. and C. E. Nome becoming 'the purchasers of the same, paying twenty-one dollars for one and sixty dollars for the other. At the time when the tax-collector issued his fi. fa., prior thereto, and alt 'the…