Baird v. McNamara
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Sunflower county. Hon. A. Me. Kimbrough, Chancellor. Bartholomew McNamara, guardian of F. X. Leroy McNamara, the appellee, was the complainant in the court below; Baird and others, the appellants, were defendants there. The suit was once before in the supreme court, and is reported, although the docket styles are not identical.
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From the chancery court of Sunflower county. Hon. A. Me. Kimbrough, Chancellor. Bartholomew McNamara, guardian of F. X. Leroy McNamara, the appellee, was the complainant in the court below; Baird and others, the appellants, were defendants there. The suit was once before in the supreme court, and is reported, although the docket styles are not identical. McNamara v. Baird, 72 Miss., 89. The court below, in ordering an accounting by its decree, directed that defendants should not be charged with rent of the land before the beginning of the suit to redeem. The facts are otherwise sufficiently…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
The questions here are, first, the proper construction of a legislative act as to the interest to be paid by a minor redeeming land from a tax sale, and, second, the proper adjustment of contentions as to rents and improvements on the lands redeemed.
Only two sections of the legislative act bear on the first .question. The act is that approved December 2, 1858 (laws of 1858, special session, p. 33), entitled, “An act to aid in re-' pairing and perfecting the levee of the Mississippi river in the counties of DeSoto, Tunica, Coahoma, Bolivar, Washington and Issaquena. ’ ’
The two sections bearing…
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