Turner v. Burke
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Phillips Chancery Court, Edward D. Robertson, Chancellor; 1. It is admitted that the sale for taxes of 1868 is void.
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Appeal from Phillips Chancery Court, Edward D. Robertson, Chancellor; 1. It is admitted that the sale for taxes of 1868 is void. The State acquired no title by virtue of the overdue tax forfeitures under the law of 1881. The commissioner appointed to perform the decree of the court failed to certify to the county clerk the sale of any of the lands involved in this suit to the State, and the latter likewise failed to make a certificate of like •purport to the Commissioner of State Lands; and if the certificate had been made, then the owners had two years in which to redeem. 34 Fed. 701; 140 U.…
1Opinion of the CourtHire, C. J.
In 1859 Oscar Turner, the first of the name in this record, purchased of the State the land in controversy, a tract of nearly two thousand acres of wild and unoccupied lands. It is alleged that the State conveyed it imder the swamp land act, and for the purpose of this case it may be taken that it was properly -selected and listed to -the State as swamp lands under the act of -Congress. Oscar Turner, the first, conveyed to Oscar Turner, Jr., his son, who was-for a time -a member of Congress from Kentucky, and was in Washington during the time the judgment hereinafter referred to was rendered…
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