Parker v. Smith

ACTION of disseisin for certain land which the plaintiff had purchased for taxes in 1827. Held, that the statute required the assessment-roll, and the advertisement of sale for taxes, to be filed in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court; and that therefore the assessment of the tax, and the advertisement of sale, should be proved by copies certified, not by the clerk of the board of-.justices, but by the clerk of the Circuit Court.

Held, also, that under the statute of 1824,. the defendant in *71such case may prove, notwithstanding the collectors deed, that from the time the precept came…