Coulter v. Anthony

This is a suit by the two appellants, Murray Whitfield Coulter and George Pro-thro Coulter, to cancel the appellees’ tax titles to several hundred acres of unimproved land in Calhoun county. The chancellor, without reaching the question of Avhether the tax titles are valid, held that the appellants are not the real parties in interest and dismissed the complaint for that reason.

The plaintiffs assert that the lands were formerly owned by Harris Brothers, a partnership which was adjudicated a bankrupt on January 23, 1932. On June 13 of that year, while the bankruptcy proceedings were still…