Cobb v. Vary
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Calhoun. Heard before the Hon. Geo.E. Brewer. This was a statutory real action in the nature of ejectment, brought by the appellee, Ida W. "Vary, against the appellants, Ed Cobb and others, to recover a certain lot in the city of Anniston, Ala. The lot was sold fox-taxes on the 29th day of June, 1892, and was bid in for the State of Alabama at the tax sale.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Calhoun. Heard before the Hon. Geo.E. Brewer. This was a statutory real action in the nature of ejectment, brought by the appellee, Ida W. "Vary, against the appellants, Ed Cobb and others, to recover a certain lot in the city of Anniston, Ala. The lot was sold fox-taxes on the 29th day of June, 1892, and was bid in for the State of Alabama at the tax sale. On the 4th day of November, 1895, the probate judge of Calhoun county, as authox-ized by an act entitled “An act to dispose of lands which may have been or may hereafter be sold fox-taxes and bid in fox-…
1Opinion of the CourtHaealson, J.
1. The first section of the act to dispose of lands which had been or might thereafter be sold for taxes and bought in by the State, adopted February 9, 1895 (Acts, 1894-95, p. 488), under which this suit was brought, provides : “That all lands which have been or which may hereafter be sold for taxes and bid in for the State, and which have not been redeemed or purchased from the State under existing laws, shall, when such lands have been, or may hereafter be held by the State for two years, become the property of the State.” The other provisions of the act, have reference to the duties of…
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