Brougher v. Stone
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Quitman county. HoN. W. R. Trigg, Chancellor. The bill in this case was filed by appellants in 1890 to cancel 'a tax title of appellee to lots 5 and 11, section 35, and other land described in the bill.
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From the chancery court of Quitman county. HoN. W. R. Trigg, Chancellor. The bill in this case was filed by appellants in 1890 to cancel 'a tax title of appellee to lots 5 and 11, section 35, and other land described in the bill. At the hearing a written agreement was read, stating that the defendant, Stone, had held actual adverse possession of lot 5 for more than three years next before the commencement of the suit, under his deed from the state, dated April 21, 1881.' There was no testimony whatever as to the possession of the other land. All the land was sold to the state, under the…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The appellants exhibited their bill in the chancery court of Quitman county against appellee, and several others, averring their ownership of lots 5 and 11, section 35, township 28, range 2, as well as other lands, not necessary to be described by us, and prayed cancellation of all claims to the lands set up by the defendant and others, as clouds upon their title. The defendant answered, denying that complainants had title to lots 5 and 11 (and other parcels claimed by him), and set up title in himself under various tax conveyances. The bar of three years of § 539, code 1880, was also pleaded…
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