Hoch v. Ratliff

OPINION

Minor W. Millwee, Justice.

On February 17, 1948, appellee, M. C. Ratliff, filed a petition in the chancery court pursuant to Ark. Stats. (1947), §§ 34-1918 to 34-1925, for confirmation of a tax title to the West % of the NE14 of Section 2, Township 2 South, Range 19 West in Garland County, Arkansas. The petition alleged that appellee acquired title to the lands under a clerk’s tax deed of November 14, 1945, based on a collector’s sale in November, 1943, for the delinquent taxes of 1942; that the time for redemption had expired; that there was no one in possession claiming adversely to…