State v. Allred

delivered tire opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the chancellor directing a sale of defendants ’ lands for delinquent taxes. The bill was filed on January 2.4, 1938. There are a number of assignments of error but we need consider only one of them as it requires a reversal of the decree and the dismissal of this particular suit.

At the time it was filed, as disclosed by the bill, there were pending in the chancery court six suits of the same character brought for collection of delinquent taxes on the same lands which proceedings had not proceeded to a sale of the lands…