Griffin v. Ellis
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Chickasaw County. Hon. Baxter McFarland, Chancellor. Mrs. Emma Ellis brought this bill in the Chancery Court of Chickasaw County against J. T. Griffin, to have cancelled a tax-deed held by the latter to certain land which is the subject of dispute. The land, which belonged to Mrs. Ellis, was sold for the unpaid taxes of 1881, under the assessment of. 1879. The tract consisted of one hundred acres.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Chickasaw County. Hon. Baxter McFarland, Chancellor. Mrs. Emma Ellis brought this bill in the Chancery Court of Chickasaw County against J. T. Griffin, to have cancelled a tax-deed held by the latter to certain land which is the subject of dispute. The land, which belonged to Mrs. Ellis, was sold for the unpaid taxes of 1881, under the assessment of. 1879. The tract consisted of one hundred acres. The tax collector, in making the sale, first offered forty acres, and received no bid.- He offered another forty acres, and received no bid. He then offered the…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
Notwithstanding that there has been since the adoption of the Code of 1871 a statute declaring in effect that no defense shall avail against a title acquired at a sale for taxes, unless it be shown that the taxes for which the sale was made had been paid before the sale, the decisions of this court have been uniform in construing this declaration, in connection with other provisions of law, as not preventing the owner from showing in defense a total departure from the provisions of law governing and directing the assessment and sales of land for taxesas that the roll was not returned at the…
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