Barnett v. Cline

The bill in this case was filed to remove a cloud on appellant’s title to certain city lots. It charges that appellee had purchased the property at three several sales for taxes, upon the two latter of which he had received a tax deed, but on the first only a certificate of purchase.

The bill charges the sales and the title derived thereunder to have been irregular and void, and states grounds in support of the allegation, which, if true, would render them worthless as title, and that the lots have been redeemed from the tax sales.

No answer ivas filed, and the bill was taken as confessed. The…