Mullins v. Shaw
Mississippi Supreme Court
ITeom the chancery court of Sunflower county. How. A. McO. Kimbrough, Chancellor. Shaw and others, appellees, were the complainants in the court below; Mullins and others, appellants, were defendants there. The object of the bill was to cancel a tax title held by appellants as a cloud upon- complainants’ title to the land in controversy.
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ITeom the chancery court of Sunflower county. How. A. McO. Kimbrough, Chancellor. Shaw and others, appellees, were the complainants in the court below; Mullins and others, appellants, were defendants there. The object of the bill was to cancel a tax title held by appellants as a cloud upon- complainants’ title to the land in controversy. The decree of the court below canceled the tax title and the defendants appealed to the supreme court-. The nature of the controversy is apparent from the opinion of the court. The only reason why it is insisted by the appellees that this sale is void is for…
1Opinion of the Court · TeeealTeeeal, J.
The decision of this court in Brothers v. Beck, 75 Miss., governs this cause. The facts of both cases are substantially the same. The record of the orders of the board of supervisors in reference to the land assessment roll of 1883 at the August and September terms of said board are the same. The testimony of Duncan, a member of the board of supervisors, and of Moody, a' member of the board of equalization, contained in this record, is not in the Brothers v. Beck case; but their evidence was incompetent so far as it tended to dispute the record of the board of supervisors. A record imparts,…
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