Thomas v. Jones
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Bristol, pronounced May 7, 1897, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellee was the complainant, and the appellant was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHaebison, J.
*757This suit was brought by EL E. Jones, appellee here, to subject to the payment of a vendor’s lien a lot in the city of .Bristol, conveyed by him in 1890 to F. F. Clark. The lot was sold in 1893 for taxes assessed against it in the hands of Clark, and bought in by the State. After this sale Clark died, and one-A. C. Keebler qualified as his administrator. The lot was not redeemed in two years, and John W. Thomas, appellant herej filed his application and became the purchaser thereof under Acts of 1895-6, p. 219, the clerk executing and delivering to him the deed which was duly recorded.
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