Justice v. Parnin

This was a suit in ejectment. The parties claimed under a common grantor, each having a complete chain of record title from the common grantor. The defendant claimed under a tax deed executed by the marshal of the City of Fitzgerald, in pursuance of a sale made on account of a failure of one of the grantors in the plaintiff’s chain of title to pay municipal taxes to the City of Fitzgerald for the year 1899. The validity of that sale is the controlling question. If the sale was authorized by law and regular, and the purchaser received a lawful tax deed in pursuance thereof, and the property…