George Patrick McNatt, Jr. v. Leslie Turbeville

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This case involves the validity of a tax deed that was acquired by a purchaser who was living on the former landowner’s property. The Rankin County Chancery Court found that Leslie Turbeville had a fee-simple title to property that she bought at a tax sale, despite the fact that Turbeville had begun living on the property as the tenant of the former landowner, George Patrick McNatt Jr. The chancellor found no merit to the claim of Barney Eugene Finch, who received a quitclaim deed from McNatt, that Turbeville was prohibited from acquiring title to the property…