Jones v. Gulf Refining Co.

On July 4, 1881, S. Gwin, the Auditor of Public Accounts, executed and delivered to A.B. Jones a forfeited tax land patent to the lands here in question, the grant being of the described land as a "tract of land," there being no words of limitation of the estate granted to the effect that it was an unexpired lease, but the grant was to the grantee and "his heirs and assigns forever." It recited that the land "was sold on the 10th day of May 1875 for the taxes due the State." The Auditor was authorized and empowered to execute the patent under the express provisions of Section 566, Code 1880.

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