Stewart v. Hall

By suit in ejectment appellees sought possession of eighty acres of land they owned prior to its forfeiture in 1929 for non-payment of state and county taxes.

November 24, 1934, appellant secured a donation certificate from the State Land Commissioner, and subsequently paid taxes for 1934, 1935, 1936,- and 1937, amounting to $28.56.

Information having been received by the Attorney General that the donee, in procuring his certificate, had made fraudulent representations, complaint was filed with the Commissioner in which it was alleged that a part of the land had been in cultivation within five…