Moody v. Hoskins
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Lincoln County. HoN. Laugh McLauriít, Chancellor. The bill in this case was exhibited by L. B. Moody against J. M. Hoskins, praying that complainant be allowed to redeem certain lands held by the defendant by virtue of a tax-title. The defendant demurred, and the Chancellor sustained the demurrer and dismissed the bill. The complainant appealed. The facts presenting the point in controversy are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Lincoln County. HoN. Laugh McLauriít, Chancellor. The bill in this case was exhibited by L. B. Moody against J. M. Hoskins, praying that complainant be allowed to redeem certain lands held by the defendant by virtue of a tax-title. The defendant demurred, and the Chancellor sustained the demurrer and dismissed the bill. The complainant appealed. The facts presenting the point in controversy are sufficiently stated in the opinion. A vested right to redeem was by the words of § 1701 of Code of 1871 lodged in appellant. The language used is “the right to redeem…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
On the 3d of January, 1876, when the land was sold for taxes and purchased by the State it belonged to infants, who by the statute then in force, Code of 1871, § 1701, had “ the right to redeem the same within one year after attaining full age,” on the terms prescribed by that section. On the 15th of April, 1876, by “An Act in relation to public revenue and for other purposes,” Acts, p. 129, that part of the Code of 1871 was repealed and all lands held by the State for taxes were declared subject to purchase, as provided by that act, by which the State proposed to convey an absolute title to…
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