Moores v. Thomas
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Harrison county. Hon. Thaddeus A. Wood, Chancellor. Moores, appellant, was complainant in the court below; Thomas, appellee, was defendant there. From a final decree in defendant’s favor the complainant appealed to the supreme court. The object of the suit was to confirm a tax title.
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From the chancery court of Harrison county. Hon. Thaddeus A. Wood, Chancellor. Moores, appellant, was complainant in the court below; Thomas, appellee, was defendant there. From a final decree in defendant’s favor the complainant appealed to the supreme court. The object of the suit was to confirm a tax title. Complainant purchased the land from the state, and the state acquired the same at a regular state and county tax sale in 1893 for the taxes of 1892. The facts upon which the controversy turned are stated in the opinion of the court. Descriptions of lands by abbreviations and symbols,…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
There are two contentions in this case on the part of appellees. The land in controversy, one hundred and twenty acres, was the subject of different ownership' at the date of assessment and sale for taxes; eighty acres being owned by one person, and the remaining forty by another. The whole tract was assessed together as “Unknown,” and described as the “W. % N. N. W. % — S. E. X. N. W. 14.” It is argued that this assessment is void, because the description is insufficient; and,'if this contention be not sound, then it is argued that the assessment and sale was void, because the assessment was…
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