Doe ex dem. Jones v. Burford
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the circuit court of De Soto county, Hon. Hugh R. Miller, judge. This was an action of ejectment instituted in the court of De Soto, for a section of land lying in De Soto county. The land was sold on the 3d of April, 1848, for the unpaid county taxes due thereon for the fiscal year 1846, and Benjamin L. Jones became the purchaser and received the tax collector’s deed for the land.
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In error from the circuit court of De Soto county, Hon. Hugh R. Miller, judge. This was an action of ejectment instituted in the court of De Soto, for a section of land lying in De Soto county. The land was sold on the 3d of April, 1848, for the unpaid county taxes due thereon for the fiscal year 1846, and Benjamin L. Jones became the purchaser and received the tax collector’s deed for the land. Upon the trial in the court below, .which resulted in a verdict for the defendant, the plaintiff proposed to read the tax collector’s deed to the jury as evidence. To this the defendant’s counsel…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fishek
This was an action of ejectment tried in the circuit court of De Soto county, which resulted in a verdict and judgment for ’the defendant.
The plaintiff on the trial offered to read as evidence to sus tain his title, a deed made, by the tax collector of said county, in April, 1848, for the land, in controversy, to the plaintiff’s lessor. This deed was, by the court, rejected as evidence, and its rejection presents the only error assigned by the plaintiff’s counsel.
To understand correctly the action of the court, we must ascertain the precise attitude of the case at the time the deed was…
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