Burroughs Land Co. v. Murphy

The appellee, Solomon Murphy, filed a bill of complaint in the chancery court of Sunflower county against the Burroughs Land Company, a foreign corporation, and the heirs of It. O. Smith, deceased, seeking to cancel an alleged tax title of the Smith heirs to certain land in controversy; and, in the event of failure so to do, to recover on the warranty of the Burroughs Land Company, appellee’s immediate vendor. In the original bill, appellee deraigned his title substantially as follows: A patent from the United States to the state of Mississippi; a patent from the state of Mississippi to Henry…