Ragsdale v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. Sylvanus Evans, Chancellor. In the year 1878 the appellee, the Alabama Great Southern R. R. Co., owned ten acres of land in Lauderdale county, being part of the S. W. J of the N. W. J, sec. 17, and L. A. Ragsdale owned the remainder of the forty acres.
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From the chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. Sylvanus Evans, Chancellor. In the year 1878 the appellee, the Alabama Great Southern R. R. Co., owned ten acres of land in Lauderdale county, being part of the S. W. J of the N. W. J, sec. 17, and L. A. Ragsdale owned the remainder of the forty acres. On March 7, 1881, the entire tract, being then assessed to Ragsdale, was sold for the taxes due thereon for the year 1880, one Alford becoming the purchaser for the sum of eleven dollars. On the 8th day of March, 1882, the day after the period for redemption expired, Alford conveyed the land to…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
We are not prepared to say that if the lands of the appellee had been assessed to Ragsdale without his procurement, he would have been precluded from purchasing the same at a sale for taxes. But the land of the company and that of Ragsdale, composing together the smallest legal sub-division, were assessed as one tract, and the whole was sold for the whole taxes due. The land of the company was therefore sold not only for the taxes due on it, but also for the taxes due on Ragsdale’s land. If he had paid the taxes due on his own land and had then bought, either directly or indirectly, the lands…
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