Hoskins v. Stevens

This proceeding in mandamus was commenced by petitioner, L. Hoskins, to compel the respondent, J. Harvey Stevens, county treasurer of Tillman county, to issue petitioner a certificate tax deed covering a quarter section of land in Tillman county.

The case was tried on an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears that the land was sold to the county at the 1930 delinquent tax sale for the 1929 ad valorem taxes; that thereafter the tax sale certificate was duly assigned to petitioner who paid the ad valorem taxes for the subsequent years to and including those for 1938, and the payments…