National Bank of the Republic v. Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of the first district of Coahoma county. Hon. W. R. Trigg, Chancellor. The opinion sufficiently states the facts. The deed from the auditor, under act 1888, did not confer any title where none was rested in the state, and was not intended to confer any title where there had been no precedent sale to the levee board.
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From the chancery court of the first district of Coahoma county. Hon. W. R. Trigg, Chancellor. The opinion sufficiently states the facts. The deed from the auditor, under act 1888, did not confer any title where none was rested in the state, and was not intended to confer any title where there had been no precedent sale to the levee board. The deed is prima, fade evidence of all such sales, and nothing more; it cured irregularity in sales to the levee board, and provided that nothing but payment should be a defense; but this applied only to levee sales. As to the sales for taxes for the years…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
The appellant, claiming to be the owner of the lands in controversy, exhibited its bill in the_ chancery court of Coahoma county to cancel as clouds upon its title certain conveyances described in the bill under which the defendant claims title, and *450also to cancel any and. all other claims of title now held or asserted by the defendant.
The bill avers that, so far as the complainant is advised, the claim of title of the defendant rests — •
1. Upon a sale to the liquidating levee board made in May, 1868.
2. A conveyance of the title of the levee board made under the decree in the case of Green v.…
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