Boon v. Simmons
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Roanoke county, rendered April 6th, 1891, in a suit in chancery wherein Sparrel F. Simmons was complainant and Walter Z. Boon was defendant.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Roanoke county, rendered April 6th, 1891, in a suit in chancery wherein Sparrel F. Simmons was complainant and Walter Z. Boon was defendant. The object of the suit was to have removed from the complainant’s title to certain land bought and paid for by, and conveyed to him, and which from the day of his purchase had remained in his possession, a cloud occasioned by a tax-title deed which had been made to the Boon, the defendant below, by the clerk of the county court of said county under an order thereof. The decree was in favor of the complainant, and…
1Opinion of the CourtFauntlekoy, J.
The record discloses the following case : On the 19th day of December, 1887, W. W. Brand, treasurer of Roanoke county, sold a certain tract or parcel of land described as two acres and forty poles near Salem, assessed in the names of J. W. Shell, T. D. Shell and E. A. Shell, as delinquent for payment of taxes due and unpaid for the year 1886, to the amount of $2.47, which said lands at said sale were purchased by Walter Z. Boon, appellant, for the sum of $2.72.
This sale, and all the proceedings were under an act of the general assembly passed February 26th, 1886 (Acts 1885-’86, *261page 280). The…
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