Ward v. Morton

This is an action to determine title to an undivided one-fourth interest in forty acres of land in Pemiscot County.

The Petition is in two counts. The first count alleges the ownership of plaintiff and that defendant is claiming adversely thereto; that on July 1, 1916, the Collector of Pemiscot County filed an action in the circuit court of said county against Thomas B. Ward, plaintiff herein, William A. Ward, Jr., Mattie M. Coppedge and Dorothy McLarty, to collect delinquent taxes on the forty-acre tract in question; that summons therein was not issued until July 6, 1916, the same being made…