Pope v. Macon

The plaintiffs in -error brought an action of ejectment for a lot of ground in Pine Bluff, and were met by a plea in abatement, that the land, including the lot, had been purchased at a sheriff’s sale for the non-payment of taxes, by persons under whom the defendants, through sundry conveyances, claimed : that .the lot had been held under the purchase, and taxes paid Thereon, since its occurrence, in 1855 ; that improvements had been put upon it, and that the plaintiffs, before bringing their suit for the recovery of the lot, had. not filed in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of…