Outlaw v. Mayo
Mississippi Supreme Court
Bill in chancery by Thomas H. Mayo against D. A. Outlaw et al. seeking to set aside a certain conveyance of lands made by Grwin and Hemingway, commissioners of the liquidating levee board and to cancel cloud upon complainant’s title. From a decree for complainant there was appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Bill in chancery by Thomas H. Mayo against D. A. Outlaw et al. seeking to set aside a certain conveyance of lands made by Grwin and Hemingway, commissioners of the liquidating levee board and to cancel cloud upon complainant’s title. From a decree for complainant there was appeal to the Supreme Court. The substantial averments of the bill are as follows: Complainant alleged that in the year 1869 he recovered judgment against one Joseph W. Field for $503.92, and that nulla, bona execution was returned thereon. That subsequently Field died leaving an insolvent estate with two minor children.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion.
Campbell, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
There is nothing in the record to- impeach the title conveyed by the deed of the tax collector in pursuance of the sale made on the 10th of May, 1875.
The deed of Johnson, tax collector, made May 10, 1870, if admitted to be void, shows the fact that the land was conveyed to the levee board. The inference is a fair one, from this deed and the subsequent sale of the land by Gwin & Hemingway, that this land was claimed by the levee board. Being claimed by this board for delinquent taxes for years prior to 1874, it was subject to the…
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