Bonds v. Greer
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Clay County. Hon. L. Brame, Chancellor. On the 4th of December, 1877, the appellees filed a bill in chancer’y for the purpose of enforcing their alleged right to redeem a certain tract of land sold on the second day of January, 1877, for the taxes of 1876, and purchased at such sale by the appellees. In their bill, the complainants made a tender of a sum of money sufficient to redeem the laud, and paid the money into court.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Clay County. Hon. L. Brame, Chancellor. On the 4th of December, 1877, the appellees filed a bill in chancer’y for the purpose of enforcing their alleged right to redeem a certain tract of land sold on the second day of January, 1877, for the taxes of 1876, and purchased at such sale by the appellees. In their bill, the complainants made a tender of a sum of money sufficient to redeem the laud, and paid the money into court. The defendant answered. Proof was taken by both sides; and, upon final hearing, the coui’t rendered a decree reciting that the…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
If the owner, or person interested in land sold for taxes, and purchased by an individual, under the act in relation to public revenue approved April 15, 1876, was entitled to redeem the land, this decree must be affirmed.
*715The practice of the State has been, generally, to allow the owner of land sold for taxes to redeem it within a prescribed time after the sale, upon terms. This right is secured by the Code of 1871, sect. 1701.
The revenue law of April 5, 1872 (Acts 1872, p. 1, sect. 8), denied the right to redeem, except to certain classes of persons, to whom it was secured by the proviso to…
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