Bell v. Johnson

This was a bill filed in the Carroll circuit court, to have a tax deed set aside and declared void, as a cloud on complainant’s title to a forty-acre tract of land in that county. The bill alleges that the deed is void for the want of a valid judgment and precept to support the sale for taxes. Defendant answered the bill, and exceptions were filed to it, and sustained as to all but the tax deed. On leave of the court, defendant filed a cross-bill, alleging that the land was regularly sold by the collector on the 21st of May, 1871, for the taxes for the year 1870; that Francis Bell, the father…