Lewis v. Coons
Supreme Court of Virginia
Original application for writ of mandamus to compel the clerk of the County Court of Culpeper county to receive certain delinquent taxes without the penalty required by the statute.
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Original application for writ of mandamus to compel the clerk of the County Court of Culpeper county to receive certain delinquent taxes without the penalty required by the statute. The form of the application was as follows: “To the clerk of the County Court of Culpeper county, Virginia: As provided by Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, amending sec. 666 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, I hereby make application to purchase a tract of land standing in the name of E. H. Lewis, and being town lot in Culpeper (Davis street), in West Catalpa District, Culpeper county, Va., purchased by the…
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
Two of the grounds urged in support of this application for a mandamus are held to be insufficient in the case of Christian v. Taylor, Clerk, decided to-day, and therefore, need not be considered further. In this case, however, the petitioner relies upon two additional grounds which relate to the sufficiency of the application.
The first contention is that the application of Charles Baker to become the purchaser of the land in question does not state in whose name the land stood at the date of the sale to the Commonwealth. The statute requires that the application shall state in whose name the…
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