Mossy Creek Bank v. Jefferson County

Mr. Powers, Special Justice,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The hill in this cause seeks to recover $649.40, with interest, from Jefferson county theretofore paid by the bank under protest; said sum being for two years, 1923 and 1924. A farm in Jefferson county, containing four hundred forty acres of land, was conveyed to two of the officers of the bank as trustees for the bank by the clerk and master of the chancery court, at a court sale, in consideration of $19,550 paid by the bank. In 1923 the taxes due on the farm were assessed to the two .owners, in whose name the title appeared,…