State Ex Rel. McCullen v. Tate

This is a suit by the Attorney-General and the State Land Commissioner to cancel a forfeited tax land patent issued to one of the appellees by a former state land commissioner, on June 26, 1936, purporting to convey the state’s title to forty acres of land situated in Leflore County about 3% miles south of Itta Bena. The land abuts immediately upon a principal public highway, leading directly to market, and had been in general cultivation as a cotton farm for several years continuously up to and including the year 1933. For the year 1934, the owner was unable to secure a tenant and the place…