Kelly v. Salinger
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Monroe Circuit Court in Chancery. M. T. Sanders, Judge. Bridget Kelly and others sued L. Salinger and others, in the circuit court of Monroe county, in ejectment for that part of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section ten, in township three north, and range two west, lying south of the Memphis & Little Rock railway track, and adjacent to the incorporated town of Brinkley, comprising about four acres.
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APPEAL from Monroe Circuit Court in Chancery. M. T. Sanders, Judge. Bridget Kelly and others sued L. Salinger and others, in the circuit court of Monroe county, in ejectment for that part of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section ten, in township three north, and range two west, lying south of the Memphis & Little Rock railway track, and adjacent to the incorporated town of Brinkley, comprising about four acres. The complaint alleged that the east half of the southwest quarter of said section was forfeited to the State for the taxes of the year 1876, and plaintiffs…
1Per curiam
The description of the land in controversy as “blocks 73 and 74 of the town of Brinkley,” it appears, is sufficient to identify it. The payment of the taxes charged against it by that description for the year 1876-rendered the subsequent sale or forfeitures of it for the taxes, of the same year illegal and void. Hershey v. Thompson, 50 Ark., 484, 489.
Judgment affirmed.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hixon v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1850
3Cited by4 opinions
- Buckner v. SuggSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1906
- Halliburton v. BrinkleySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1918
- Moseley v. MoonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1940
- Payton v. BlakeSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2005