George Anderson v. M. L. Shellhammer

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

The narrow point upon which this decision will turn is the validity of a tax sale of twenty acres of Texas land. The trial court sitting without jury held the sale to be valid, and we agree. The sale was made in a suit filed in a Texas District Court by an Independent School District May 9, 1940, seeking to recover delinquent taxes due it and for foreclosure of its tax lien upon said land. Final judgment was entered in the suit April 11, 1942, and appellee Shellhammer bought at a tax sale based upon that judgment.

Appellants brought this action as the sole heirs at law…