Green v. Craft
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the northern district chancery court at Holly Springs ; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. The opinion of the court, and the points made in Mr. Davis’s brief, contain a sufficient statement of the facts of the case. In this case, the vice-chancellor set aside a sheriff’s deed for land sold for taxes, on the ground that it was not assessed in the name of the owner at the time of assessment.
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In error from the northern district chancery court at Holly Springs ; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. The opinion of the court, and the points made in Mr. Davis’s brief, contain a sufficient statement of the facts of the case. In this case, the vice-chancellor set aside a sheriff’s deed for land sold for taxes, on the ground that it was not assessed in the name of the owner at the time of assessment. The land was sold in 1847, for the taxes of the fiscal year of 1846. The act of 1846, Hutch. Code, p. 190, § 31, and the act of 1848, Hutch. Code, p. 200, § 5, makes tax deeds primá facie…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice FisheR
The object of the bill was to obtain a decree cancelling a deed made by the tax collector of Tippah county to the plaintiff in error, C. A. Green, on the 5th of April, 1847, for a quarter section of land, sold by the said collector on that day for the payment of the tax assessed thereon for the year 1846.
The complainant derives his title to the land through inter.mediate conveyances from the heirs of one James H. Shorter, who, it is alleged, was in his lifetime the owner of the land. ■Jt appears that Shorter died some time during the year 1846 ; when the land descended to his heirs. The bill…
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