Shelby v. Burns

This is an appeal from a decree confirming the appellee’s tax title to land claimed by him under a sale for taxes. A former appeal herein is reported in 148 Miss. 206, 114 So. 349; The case was tried on bill, answer, and proof.- The appellee, in support of his case, introduced in evidence a list of lands sold for taxes to the city of Gulfport and connected himself therewith by deed from that city. Attached to this list of lands sold to the city for taxes is a certificate, reading as follows:

“I, N. IX Goodwin, tax collector of the city of Gulf-port, Mississippi, hereby certify that the…