Coffee v. Coleman

The bill is to confirm a tax title, is good on its face, and exhibits, as part of it, two conveyances from the tax collector which are in statutory form, and are by law prima facie evidence of the validity of the assessment and sale. Code 1892, §§ 1806, 3817. We are not favored with any brief for appellee, but suppose thé demurrer was argued and sustained on the ground that, because the tax conveyances recite that the assessment was for the year 1890, the court had to assume that it was made under the act of March 8, 1888 (Laws 1888, p. 24, ch. 9), commonly known as the “Madison act,” which…