Powell v. Greenstreet
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Randolph Oireuit Qourt. — Hon. G..IT Burokhartt, Judge. Execution sales of- land under the back-tax law of 1877 stand on the same ground as ordinary execution sales of land; and the purchaser acquires only the title or interest of the defendant in execution and nothing .more.
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Appeal from Randolph Oireuit Qourt. — Hon. G..IT Burokhartt, Judge. Execution sales of- land under the back-tax law of 1877 stand on the same ground as ordinary execution sales of land; and the purchaser acquires only the title or interest of the defendant in execution and nothing .more. Acts 1877, pp. 384-5-6-7, secs. 6, 7, 8; Watt v. Donnell, 80 Mo. 195; Vance v. Corrigan, 78 Mo. 94; Jasper Co. v. Wadlow, 82 Mo. 172-78 ; Caswell v. Gray, 85 Mo. 169 ; Payne «. Lott, 80 Mo. 676. A tax sale does not create a new and original title, but only passes that of the defendant in the tax proceeding.…
1Opinion of the CourtBlack, J.
Action of ejectment. Plaintiff put in evidence two deeds to himself, each for different portions of the premises sued for. The deeds were executed by the sheriff of Macon county, and are based upon judgments recovered in the name of the state to the use of the collector, in suits to enforce the state’s lien for unpaid taxes. In one case the judgment Was rendered against Mathsulah Bevier and W. D. Hicks, and in the other against W. D. Hicks. Plaintiff offered no other evidence of title whatever. It was admitted that the land had always been vacant up to the time defendant went into possession;…
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