Schuman v. Ouachita County

Tliis suit, which was decided below on demurrer to the appellant’s complaint, is a sequel to our decision in Sorkin v. Myers, 216 Ark. 908, 227 S. W. 2d 958. The earlier case involved the validity of tax titles to mineral interests that had been severed from the fee. It was there shown that in Ouachita County the taxes upon such mineral interests were not extended upon the same taxbooks that included real property in general. Instead, a separate book of “Leases and Royalties” was kept, in which mineral interests were listed according to the alphabetical order of the owners’ names. We held…