Beloate v. State Ex Rel. Attorney General

The Attorney General commenced this suit under act 296 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1929 (page 1235), to confirm the State’s title to certain lands which had forfeited to it for the nonpayment of the taxes due thereon. The complaint described a certain forty-acre tract of land, which was alleged to have been sold in 1928 for the 1927 taxes.

W. E. Beloate, Jr., filed an answer, alleging his ownership of the forty-acre tract referred to, and a cross-complaint, in which Arthur Friar was made a cross-defendant, which pleading alleged that Friar had taken possession of the land under a…