City of Biloxi v. Lowery

Appellee, as complainant, filed his bill in the chancery court to confirm his tax title to lot 17, block 3, Kellar's addition (Avondale) in the City of Biloxi, Harrison County. It was alleged in the bill that the land of which the described lot forms a part was patented by the United States on August 7, 1837, to the heirs of Chevalier Peytovin, the original entryman, and that on April 24, 1872, the heirs of Peytovin conveyed the land to John H. Kellar, by a deed of record in Book 12, pp. 458-60, of the deed records of Harrison County. That Kellar divided the land into blocks and lots and…