Mixon v. Clevenger
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of the second district of Perry county. The opinion states the case. 1. The description in the tax deed and in the assessment roll is wholly free from any ambiguity. The field notes of the United States survey, as appears from the records thereof in the land commissioner’s office, show that Bowie river is a monument in said survey. It is noted on the survey as traversing section 32, township 5, range 1 west, in Perry county, from north to south.
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From the chancery court of the second district of Perry county. The opinion states the case. 1. The description in the tax deed and in the assessment roll is wholly free from any ambiguity. The field notes of the United States survey, as appears from the records thereof in the land commissioner’s office, show that Bowie river is a monument in said survey. It is noted on the survey as traversing section 32, township 5, range 1 west, in Perry county, from north to south. This court takes judicial notice of the government surveys. Muse v. Richards, 70 Miss., 581. The pleadings made the…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
The appellee exhibited his bill in the chancery court of Perry county to cancel, as a cloud upon his title, a hostile tax title, claimed by the appellants, and, on final hearing, the court decreed in his favor. The lands are a part of the east half of section 32, township 5 north, range 13 west. They were assessed for the year 1890, under the following description: “East half west of Bowie, section 32, township 5 north, range 13 west,” and were so described in the conveyance from the tax collector to appellants.
The assessment roll, on which the lands were sold, was prop*71erly returned by the…
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