Jones v. Merrill
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of the first district of Hinds county. Hon. H. C. Conn, Chancellor. The case is stated in the opinion. The former decree, canceling the tax-title of 1868, is conclusive against appellee, who holds through one of the defendants in that suit.
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From the chancery court of the first district of Hinds county. Hon. H. C. Conn, Chancellor. The case is stated in the opinion. The former decree, canceling the tax-title of 1868, is conclusive against appellee, who holds through one of the defendants in that suit. If we assume that the taxes were not paid for 1874, and the sale to the state, in 1875, was valid, the auditor’s deed to Mrs. Merrill, in 1888, was invalid, because she was not within the contemplation of the act of 1888, not being a purchaser under the decree in Green v. Gibbs. 'The tax-title of 1868, under which she claimed, had…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
Assuming all controverted facts to be in favor of the appellees, the history of the'title of the lands in controversy, ■chronologically stated, is this:
In May, 1868, the lands, then being owned by George E. Williams, were sold for the non-payment of levee taxes, and .at said sale were bought by the liquidating levee board. In ■ September, 1868, Williams conveyed the lands to Mrs. M. A. V. Crawford and others, reserving to himself an estate for his own life therein. The title thus conveyed, it is agreed, after-wards passed to the complainants, but the date does not appear. In 1870 the lands…
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