Colligan v. Cooney

This is a controversy over three lots in the city of Memphis. The complainant’s title rests upon decrees of sale pronounced in two suits begun in the Chancery Court of Shelby County, by the State, to enforce' leins for taxes claimed to be due for the years 1891 and 1892 from the owners on these lots. One of these suits was styled State v. Rees, and the other State v. Leggatt, the first of which .was filed on the 10th, and the latter on the 12th of January, 1894. At the sale made under the decrees in these two cases, complainant became the purchaser, and, having paid the purchase price,…