Fountain v. Joullian
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Hancock county. TIon; J. Morgan Stevens, Chancellor. Bill by J. Q. Fountain against E. C. Joullian. From s decree for defendant sustaining a demurrer to the bill, complainant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Hancock county. TIon; J. Morgan Stevens, Chancellor. Bill by J. Q. Fountain against E. C. Joullian. From s decree for defendant sustaining a demurrer to the bill, complainant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The second ground of the demurrer objects to the selling of an undivided interest in nine separate or distinct parcels of land which it is alleged should have been the subject-matter of separate assessments and same separately sold. Section 3774, Code of 1892 applied. It did not require a separate assessment of each block.…
1Opinion of the Court
Holden, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court..The appellants filed their bill in the chancery court of Hancock county, seeking to confirm their tax title to an undivided one-half interest in certain real estate .sold to them by the tax collector of Hancock county in March, 1896, for taxes of 1895. A demurrer, filed by the defendant below, appellee here, was sustained to the bill. It appears from the record that blocks sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-five, sixty-six, sixty-seven, sixty-eight, and sixty-nine, Gulf View, section nineteen, township nine, range fifteen west,…
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