Lee Wilson & Co. v. Driver
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Mississippi Chancery Court; Edzvard D. Robertson, Chancellor; Since there was no publication in the district in which the land was situated, and the sale was not made in that district, and no tax books were kept therein, the sale was void.
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Appeal from Mississippi Chancery Court; Edzvard D. Robertson, Chancellor; Since there was no publication in the district in which the land was situated, and the sale was not made in that district, and no tax books were kept therein, the sale was void. Acts 1905, p. 755; 73 Ark. 221; Kirby’s Dig. § 7019; 39 Ark. 201. The statute requiring separate tax books for each district in counties having two judicial districts and separate records of lands sold at the annual tax sales is directory only. Kirby’s Dig. § 7019; 91 Ark. 117. The statute dividing Mississippi County into two districts was…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
Appellant, being the original owner of a tract of land in the .Chiclcasawba District of Mississippi County, seeks to cancel a tax title of appellee acquired at a sale in 1905 for the taxes of 1904, and quieting his own title. The lands in the Cbickasawba District were all embraced in one tax book kept at Osceola, the county seat, and in the Osceola District of the county. No separate tax book was kept in the Chiclcasawba District of the taxes on the lands in that district for the year 1904. No separate delinquent list for the taxes of 1904 on lands in the Chiclcasawba District was filed in…
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