Ray v. Murdock
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to tbe Circuit Court of Copiah county. Hon. John E. McNair, judge. This action was brought to recover one hundred and sixty acres, or two-eighths of land, in possession of defendant. The tax-collector’s deed, relied on by defendant to defeat plaintiff’s title, embraced this land in controversy, and other land, altogether amounting three thousand and sixteen acres, which it recites were sold as the property of plaintiff.
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of Copiah county. Hon. John E. McNair, judge. This action was brought to recover one hundred and sixty acres, or two-eighths of land, in possession of defendant. The tax-collector’s deed, relied on by defendant to defeat plaintiff’s title, embraced this land in controversy, and other land, altogether amounting three thousand and sixteen acres, which it recites were sold as the property of plaintiff. The second instruction given to the jury, at the instance of plaintiff, was as follows:— “If the jury believe, from the evidence, that the tax-collector sold and…
1Opinion of the CourtHaNdy, J.
This action was brought by the defendant in error, to recover a tract of land in the possession of the plaintiff in error, being one-eighth of a section of land in Copiah county.
Upon the trial, the plaintiff below showed a patent from the United States to him for the land, and rested his case.
The defendant then read in evidence, a deed from the tax-collector of that county, to Martin J. Malloy, dated in February, 1846, conveying the land in controversy, and divers other parcels of land, stated therein to have been sold to Malloy at tax-collector’s sale, due for the year 1845, for the purpose…
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