Lyon Co. v. Ratliff
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from chancery court, Jackson county. Hon. V. A. Griffith, Chancellor. Suit by S. R. Ratliff against the Lyon Company and others. Decree for plaintiff, and defendants appeal. The main argument made in the brief filed by appellee is as to the alleged invalidity of the tax sale to Mrs. Emily C. Lyon on the first day of March 184)7. They cite the case of Dixon■ v. Doc, 23 Miss. 84, to show that a tax sale of lands belonging to the United States is void.
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Appeal from chancery court, Jackson county. Hon. V. A. Griffith, Chancellor. Suit by S. R. Ratliff against the Lyon Company and others. Decree for plaintiff, and defendants appeal. The main argument made in the brief filed by appellee is as to the alleged invalidity of the tax sale to Mrs. Emily C. Lyon on the first day of March 184)7. They cite the case of Dixon■ v. Doc, 23 Miss. 84, to show that a tax sale of lands belonging to the United States is void. We submit that all this argument is beside the point, for the reason that appellee is not in position to question the validity of the tax…
1Opinion of the CourtEthbidge, J.
The appellee was complainant below, and filed a bill to cancel the tax title to certain lands, deraigning title from the United States government through mesne conveyances to himself.- The bill sets forth that the defendants had bought said lands at a tax sale made in 1897 for the taxes of 1896, and sets up that the sale was absolutely void because the title to the land at that time was in the United States government, and not subject.to taxation. It is further alleged that the purchaser at said tax sale filed a suit in 1903 against Isabelle Fairley, and" on the 26th day of September, 1904, a…
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