Doe on Dem. Taylor v. Allen
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Ejectment tried before Cloud, J., Spring Term, 1872, of Stokes Superior Court. This was an action to recover possession of a tract of land in Stokes County. The action was commenced under the old system.
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Ejectment tried before Cloud, J., Spring Term, 1872, of Stokes Superior Court. This was an action to recover possession of a tract of land in Stokes County. The action was commenced under the old system. The laets were : that the land had been granted, and that in the year 1858, one John G. Smith, then residing on the land in Stokes county, “was due for the taxes of that year, (1858) $5.40,** and a tax list, properly made out and certified, came into the hands of John Martin, then Sheriff of Stokes county, and who continued to be Sheriff during the year 1859. The Sheriff failed to collect the…
1Opinion of the CourtRoraiMAN, J.
The following is a brief of so much of the Act fur selling land for taxes (Rev. Code, oh. 99) as is material to the present case:
Sue. 33. At the first County Court after the first day of April in each year, the Court shall appoint a Justice in each district, to take the list of taxable property.
Siec. 55. The Justice shall advertise when and where he will attend to take the lists.
Sue. 06. Having taken them, he shall return them to the term of the County Court next thereafter.
Sue. 69. The clerks, on or before the first day of April next after the return to him, shall return an abstract of the…
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