Seals v. Perkins
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the chancery court of, first district, Bolivar county. Horn Mahuel E. DeetoN, Chancellor. , Perkins, appellee, was complainant in the court below; Mrs. Seals, appellant, was defendant there. Prom a decree in-complainant’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The purpose of the suit was to confirm the complainant’s title to the lands in suit, and to cancel as clouds thereon the several tax titles under which defendant claimed the lands.
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Prom the chancery court of, first district, Bolivar county. Horn Mahuel E. DeetoN, Chancellor. , Perkins, appellee, was complainant in the court below; Mrs. Seals, appellant, was defendant there. Prom a decree in-complainant’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The purpose of the suit was to confirm the complainant’s title to the lands in suit, and to cancel as clouds thereon the several tax titles under which defendant claimed the lands. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The patent executed by the state, dated July 30, 1900, vested in defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Whiteield, O. J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
A very careful and protracted examination of tbis record, which has been under consideration for many months, and twice orally 'argued, has thoroughly satisfied us of tbe soundness of appellee’s title, unless it bas been divested by tbe tax sales under which tbe appellant claims. Tbe appellant sets up three claims:
First. Tbat she bas tbe title by virtuq of an alleged sale to tbe state on July 2, 1894. Tbis sale was absolutely void, because, first, tbe assessment was a nullity. The two order's of tbe board of supervisors relating to this roll…
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