State v. Southern Pine Co.

This novel case was appealed by the State of Mississippi from a decree of the Chancery Court of Marion County, overruling its two demurrers to the original bill of appellees. The purpose of the suit was to have the trial court to grant appellees, as complainants, a decree “declaring all of said pretended assessments and pretended tax sales of lands in the NE14 of SW]4 of Section 24, Township 2, Range. 13, in Marion County, Mississippi, to be null and void, and cancelling whatever title, or claim of title the State of Mississippi may have to the land in suit by virtue of said pretended tax…