Kentucky Lands Investment Co. v. Towery

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

CHIEF JUSTICE HOBSON

Reversing.

This case is similar to the case of Kentucky Lands Investment Company v. Adaline Simmons, 146 Ky., 589, but proof is made here that was not made there. The sale of the land in this case was invalid because the land was sold not only for the tax that was due hut for a poll tax. Towery was a non-resident of the county; the land had been assessed by the surveyors from a descriptive list filed by him. No poll tax had been assessed against him. The sale having been made for the tax that was not valid as well as for the tax that was due, was…