Patterson v. Durfey
Mississippi Supreme Court
Feom the chancery court of Yazoo county. Hon. H. C. CONN, Chancellor. Appellees, as complainants, obtained a decree in the court below, from which the defendants prosecuted this appeal. A part of the land in controversy was sold to the state in 1878 for the non-payment of the taxes of 1877, and defendants after-wards purchased the same, receiving a deed from the auditor. At the time of the sale of this land to the state, it was assessed to the liquidating levee board.
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Feom the chancery court of Yazoo county. Hon. H. C. CONN, Chancellor. Appellees, as complainants, obtained a decree in the court below, from which the defendants prosecuted this appeal. A part of the land in controversy was sold to the state in 1878 for the non-payment of the taxes of 1877, and defendants after-wards purchased the same, receiving a deed from the auditor. At the time of the sale of this land to the state, it was assessed to the liquidating levee board. Inasmuch as the act of 1867 exempts from taxation all lands held by the levee board, complainants insisted that the fact that…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The complainant, E. E. Durfey, soon after attaining his majority, filed this bill in the chancery court of Yazoo county against the respondents, in which he alleges that as one of the devisees of Mrs. Eliza Askew, deceased, his maternal grandmother, he was entitled to an undivided one-fourth interest in the lands in controversy ; that the several conveyances under which the respondents claim title to the entire estate in the lands is a cloud upon his undivided interest therein; and he prays to redeem, and for an accounting, etc. The respondents in their answer, besides a vast multitude of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Nevin v. BaileyMississippi Supreme Court · 1884
- Clymer v. CameronMississippi Supreme Court · 1878
- Metcalfe v. PerryMississippi Supreme Court · 1888
- Clay v. MooreMississippi Supreme Court · 1887
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