Clifton v. Curry

SIMPSON, Judge.

From an adverse judgment in the lower court, the plaintiff, Virgil Clifton, brings this appeal.

Clifton was the owner of the real estate involved but failed to pay the taxes thereon for the year 1933. In 1934 the property was sold to satisfy this tax lien and at the sale, there • being no other bidders, the State became the purchaser, pursuant to the requirement of the statute. Thereupon, the usual “Certificate of Land Sale for Taxes” was duly issued by the judge of probate reciting the necessary jurisdictional facts and showing that the State had become such purchaser.

Thereafter…