May v. Ellis

PATTERSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Wayne County which cancelled defendants’ claim to certain mineral interests in that County. The defendants appeal here and assign as error the action of the lower court in granting the relief prayed by the complainants and in can-celling the right, title, and interest of appellants to the subject minerals.

The appellees’ title to the minerals in question originated by virtue of a tax sale on September 18, 1944, and a tax deed pursuant thereto dated October 3, 1947. The appellants contend that the tax sale was a nullity…