Conservative Homestead Ass'n v. Conery

The only question in this case is whether a tax sale, under the provisions of Act No. 170 of 1898, of real estate that is subject to a vendor’s lien held by a building and loan association, or homestead association, and recorded previous to the assessment of the property for the taxes, conveys the property free from the vendor’s lien or subject to it. The district judge decided -that the sale of the property for delinquent taxes due to the state did not have the effect of canceling the vendor’s lien, recorded previous to the assessment under which the tax sale was made, but merely transferred…