Smith v. Pettus, Curator

Appellee, as curator of the estates of Billie Jean Collins and Howard G-lenn Collins, minors, by his suit in the lower court, sought to effect redemption of an eighty-acre tract and a forty-acre tract, in which his wards owned an undivided thirteen one hundred and twenty-sixth interest, the remaining shares being owned by certain adults. These lands, delinquent for taxes of 1932, were sold by the collector to the state, and in 1936 the title of the state thereto was confirmed by proceeding-in chancery court. On the 19th day of June, 1941, appellant, Sullivan, purchased the eighty-acre tract…