McLemore v. Anderson
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe Chancery Court of Quitman county. Hon. Cary C. Moody, Chancellor. Anderson, appellee, was complainant in the court below; MeLemore and others, appellants, were defendants there. From a decree dismissing defendants’ cross-bill, the complainant having-voluntarily dismissed the original bill, the defendants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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From tbe Chancery Court of Quitman county. Hon. Cary C. Moody, Chancellor. Anderson, appellee, was complainant in the court below; MeLemore and others, appellants, were defendants there. From a decree dismissing defendants’ cross-bill, the complainant having-voluntarily dismissed the original bill, the defendants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The cross-complainants on January 9, 1878, purchased the land from Gibbs and Hemingway, Commissioners, appointed to sell the lands held by the Liquidating Levee Board, in the case of Green v.…
1Opinion of the Court 1
Whitfield, O. L,
delivered the opinion of the court.*
The case made by the record is as follows: On June 17, 1898, Peter Anderson filed his bill in the chancery court of Quitman county, showing that the land in controversy was sold to the state for taxes on July 4,1867, and that, there having been no purchase or redemption from that sale, it was again sold for taxes on May 10, 1875, under the abatement act of 1875 (Laws 1875, p. 11, c. 2), and that by mesne conveyances he had acquired said tax titles, and praying for a confirmation of his said tax title. On January 16, 1899, the defendants…
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