Stockstill v. Bennett

This case involves the sufficiency of the description of certain lands in an assessment and tax sale. The Chancery Court of Pearl River County upheld the validity of the description when aided by parol evidence as authorized by Miss. Code of 1942, Secs. 9773 and 9775. The former statute provides that a failure to observe the requirements in making up the land rolls shall not vitiate any assessment “if the land be so described as to be identified; and it shall be sufficient identification of land to describe it as the land of . . . (person owning or claiming it), occupied by . . .; or that…