Delbert Ray Alexander v. Billy Joe Pitts, Jr.

GREENLEE, J.,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. Billy Joe Pitts Jr. purchased real property from a person who had acquired it through a tax sale and successfully quieted title to the property. Pitts and his neighbor, Delbert Ray Alexander, subsequently had a dispute over their boundary line. Pitts and Alexander litigated the boundary-line dispute for years. The chancellor ultimately held that to the extent that Alexander had raised an adverse-possession claim, it lapsed due to the tax sale. On appeal, Alexander claims he did not have proper notice of the tax sale or the action quieting title to the property.…