Butts v. Ricks
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe chancery court of Tazoo county. Hon. Henry C. Conn, Chancellor. Butts, appellant, was complainant, and Mrs. Ricks, appellee, was defendant, in the court below.
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From tbe chancery court of Tazoo county. Hon. Henry C. Conn, Chancellor. Butts, appellant, was complainant, and Mrs. Ricks, appellee, was defendant, in the court below. Complainant, by his bill of complaint, alleged that he was owner of certain lands described in the bill, but that defendant was in possession thereof, and had been for over three years, claiming under a tax deed dated March 2, 1891; that said tax deed had been executed by the tax collector in pursuance of an attempted sale of the land for taxes alleged to be due thereon for the year 1890; but that said sale was void because…
1Opinion of the CourtPrice, J.
There was a valid existing assessment on the land under the *538act of 1888 (Laws 1888, p. 463, c. 378), and an unconstitutional and void act of the legislature could not work a legislative abandonment. The land was owned by private individuals, and subject to taxation. The taxes were not paid on the land, and in 1900 the tax collector advertised and sold the land for unpaid taxes of 1899, and executed to the purchaser a conveyance in pursuance of such sale for taxes. The purchaser at the tax sale after two years — the time allowed for redemption— went into actual possession of the land, and he,…
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