Reliance Inv. Co. v. Johnson

The appellant exhibited its bill against the appellees and others alleging that it had purchased from the state property described therein to which the state had acquired title at a sale thereof for delinquent taxes, and prayed that its title thereto be confirmed under section 402, Code of 1930. The case was tried on bill, answer and proof, resulting in the bill of complaint being dismissed, the decree so doing reciting:

"That the procurement of the patent from the State of Mississippi was illegal and fraudulent as against the State of Mississippi and on account thereof the said patent is…