Homochitto Development Co. v. Jones

Appellant brought this action against appellee in the circuit court of Adams county to recover the sum of one thousand forty-seven dollars and seventy-three cents, the taxes on certain lands in Wilkinson county for the year 1931, which taxes appellant alleged it had paid, but which, under stipulations in deeds by it theretofore conveying the timber rights on the land to appellee, the latter was obligated to pay.

Appellee’s defense was that under the stipulations in the deeds it was only liable for the taxes on the lands up to the time it surrendered its timber rights to appellant, and that…