Harvey v. Gulf States Land & Improvement Co.

The plaintiffs sold to R. McWilliams, Limited, on a credit, two lots of ground with improvements, retaining a mortgage cn *551the property for the price. The sale was made after the completion of the assessment of the year, so that for the year in which the sale took place the property stood on the assessment roll in the name of the plaintiffs. R. McWilliams, Limited, failing to pay the taxes thus assessed, the property was sold .at a tax sale, and was bought by the •defendant; and plaintiffs bring this suit to set aside the tax sale on the ground that the notice of the delinquency of the taxes…