Bolin v. Kelley

This case involves a direct attack on the validity of a tax sale. The lot forfeited to the state in 1939 for the nonpayment of 1938 taxes. Appellant Bolin received a state deed in January, 1942. Thereafter the state proceeded under act 119 of 1935 to confirm title. Appellees intervened in that proceeding, attacked the validity of the sale, tendered the redemption money, and cross-complained against Bolin. Among other grounds of attack on the sale, it was alleged that the notice of sale was not published for the time provided by law. The chancery court found the tax deed to be defective, and…