Cochran v. Baker
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Holmes County. Hon. S. W. "Williamson, Chancellor. W. R. Baker filed the bill in this case to obtain a decree of confirmation of his title to a certain tract of land bought by him from the State, and which had been previously sold to the State under the act of the Legislatui’e, approved March 1, 1875, and known now as the “ Abatement Act.”
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Holmes County. Hon. S. W. "Williamson, Chancellor. W. R. Baker filed the bill in this case to obtain a decree of confirmation of his title to a certain tract of land bought by him from the State, and which had been previously sold to the State under the act of the Legislatui’e, approved March 1, 1875, and known now as the “ Abatement Act.” The bill alleged that the land was sold to the State, in 1869, for the taxes of 1868, and not having been redeemed nor purchased, was subject to the provisions of the Abatement Act, under which it was again sold to the…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
On the 1st of March, 1875, the State was, or claimed to be,, the owner of an immense quantity of land, which had been sold to it for taxes of preceding years. These lands were, as the property of the State, exempt from taxation, and a general distrust as to the validity of the sales under which they had been acquired deterred persons from purchasing them from the State. A considerable portion of them had been purchased by the State prior to the year 1861; and in the destruction of records caused by the war, all evidence of title, as to a large portion of them, had been lost. Others of them…
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