Gober v. Lee

CARLTON, J., for the Court.

¶ 1. The tax collector of Madison County sold property owned by Jack Lee at a tax sale because Lee had failed to pay the assessed taxes due on his property. Then, Howard Gober bought Lee’s property from the tax sale. The chancellor later voided the tax sale of Lee’s property on August 26, 2006, because the chancellor found that the former Madison County Chancery Clerk had failed to provide proper notice of the tax sale to Lee pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated sections 27-43-1 (Rev.2006) 1 and 27-43-3 (Supp. 2008). 2 Mistakenly, the chancery clerk filed a second…