Bone v. Duryea

*846■"‘Opinion ok the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

•Affirming’.

' r ■ W. F. Weld, prior to 1896, was the owner of certain mineral rights in 3*2 tracts of land in Pike ■ county aggregating about 6,000 acres, tie died and left a will wherein he devised same to his wife.

The taxes of 1896 on this property were unpaid, and the sheriff advertised and sold the same for .such .taxes, and:at the tax sale M. W. Hellier (now appellant Mrs. Bone) became the purchaser, and the sheriff thereafter • conveyed the same to her, and she in turn conveyed same to the Big Sandy Company. ' ■,. .Mrs. Weld thereafter…