State v. Sexton

This suit involves the validity of a tax title under which the State of Tennessee claims, to own 3500 acres of wooded mountain, land in Morgan County, set apart on February 1, 1939, as a State Forest, under Chapter 166, Acts of 1933, and Chapter 265, Acts of 1937, by proclamation of Governor Prentice Cooper.

The bill was filed on February 1, 1958, on relation of the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Conservation of the State, against Leonard F. Sexton to enjoin him from cutting timber on the land and for a decree sustaining the State’s title and right to possession under a decree of the…