Chrisman v. Currie
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Lincoln County. Hon. H. S. VaN Eatou, Chancellor. On the 27th of December, 1880, J. B. Chrisman filed the bill in this cause seeking the confirmation of a tax-title to a certain described tract of land, and alleging substantially the following facts as entitling him to the relief: In 1857, James Currie entered the land from the United States under a law authorizing actual settlers to enter public lands at twelve and a half cents per acre;…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Lincoln County. Hon. H. S. VaN Eatou, Chancellor. On the 27th of December, 1880, J. B. Chrisman filed the bill in this cause seeking the confirmation of a tax-title to a certain described tract of land, and alleging substantially the following facts as entitling him to the relief: In 1857, James Currie entered the land from the United States under a law authorizing actual settlers to enter public lands at twelve and a half cents per acre; and though Currie made the required oath as to actual settlement, he, In fact, never settled on the land or made any…
1Opinion of the CourtChalMERS, J.
1. To say this land “ was forfeited to the State,” is an inapt method of stating an acquisition of title by the State, since land is conveyed to the State with us, not by forfeiture, but by the filing of a list of lands'sold to the State in the proper office, which is made the equivalent of a formal deed; but the expression is a common one, both in popular and legal parlance, and such an averment is not demurrable.
2. The act “ to quiet tax-titles and increase the revenue of the State” (Acts 1872, p. 9)', and the act supplemental and amendatory thereof (Acts 1873, p. 91) constitute parts of a…
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