Winning v. Eakin

Bkannon, Judge:

This is a suit to set aside a tax deed made by the clerk to the purchaser, and a deed by that purchaser to another, resulting- in a decree annulling- both deeds. One objection to this tax deed is that Winning- owned two separate tracts, one of fifty acres, another five hundred and four acres, and the charg-e on the tax book combined both tracts, instead of a separate charg-e, making- the charge of five hundred and fifty-four acres. It is true that the Code, in chapter 29, section 37, directs each tract to be assessed separately; but section 37a allows an owner of contiguous…