Smythe v. Whitehead

The appellants filed their bill in the chancery court to confirm a tax title to the West half of the Southeast quarter, section 14, township 12, range 5, alleging that in accordance Avith the provision of the law pertaining thereto the tax collector executed a deed to the said purchasers conveying said lands to the complainants, and made his report as required by law. That more' than two years have elapsed since the date of the tax sale to the complainants, and that the lands have' not been redeemed by the original owher or the defendants or any one else in their behalf, and the tax…