Barnes v. Rogers

This is a suit to confirm a tax title to lots 1 to 17 and 20 to 33, Block 5, Washington Heights Survey, Forrest County, Mississippi. The complainant in deraigning his title shows that in 1941 Dr. D. C. Rogers, the appellee, owned the lots in question, having acquired the same by deed many years before, and that for the year 1941 the lots were duly and legally assessed for state and county taxes. The taxes for said year were not paid and the land was sold by the Tax Collector for the payment of the same. D. Seward became the highest bider therefor and the purchaser thereof at said tax sale,…