Gordon v. Walton

Roberds, J.,

delivered the opinipn of the court.

Appellant, in her bill in this cause, seeks (1) to remove as a cloud on her title to two lots in the Town of Newton, Mississippi, a patent thereto issued by the State of Mississippi to defendant, G. W. Burt, and (2) to procure a personal decree against appellee Walton, as chancery clerk, and his bondsman, for damages caused appellant by the wrongful act of said clerk in certifying to the state that the said two lots had not been redeemed from tax sales to the state, after appellant had redeemed said lots from the sales and Walton had issued to…