Sanderson v. Thomas

Action by Sanderson to cancel a collector’s tax deed issued to W. M. and R. B. Thomas and to quiet title against them and others who were made defendants. Prom a decree dismissing plaintiff’s complaint for want of equity and quieting title in the defendants, is this appeal.

The collector’s deed under which defendants’ claim is based is a void tax sale with alleged possession under the deed for more than two years prior to the institution of the suit. By its decree the trial court found that the defendants had been in actual possession of the lands in controversy, cultivating same since the…