Mullins v. Lyle

This is an appeal from a decree of the chancery court in favor of Mendola Lyle et al., appellees, against T. H. Mullins, appellant, cancelling his title to certain lands.

Mullins, the defendant in the court below, claimed title to two forty-acre tracts of land described by proper governmental subdivision, which title he acquired by virtue of sales of land struck off to the State; one sale at the proper time in 1931 for the taxes of 1930, the other sale made in 1932 for the taxes of 1931.

By their bill, the appellees, the owners of the land sold to the State, averred that the sale of the lands…