Osburn v. Hide
Mississippi Supreme Court
Fbom the circuit court of Tallahatchie county. HoN. Geobge WinstoN, Judge. The plaintiff in ejectment relied upon a tax-title derived from the state.
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Fbom the circuit court of Tallahatchie county. HoN. Geobge WinstoN, Judge. The plaintiff in ejectment relied upon a tax-title derived from the state. He introduced the list of lands sold to the state in March, 1883, for the taxes of 1884, which embraced the land in controversy, and then introduced the auditor’s deed to himself, dated March 15, 1886. The defendant offered in evidence the land assessment roll of 1883, to show that it had not been filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors on the day required by law. The plaintiff objected on the ground that the assessment roll of 1883 had…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The appellant should have been permitted to show, if he could, that the assessment roll of 1883 was not filed in the clerk’s office in the time required by law, and that the act entitled, “An act to amend section 503 of the code,” etc., approved March 12, 1884, did not cure the irregularity because of the failure of the board of supervisors to receive and approve the roll at its August term, 1884. The true interpretation of the 3d section of that act is that its curative effect was made to depend on the receipt and approval at its August term, 1884, by the board of supervisors of the county,…
2Cited by1 opinion
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