Walthall v. Yohn

SIMPSON, Justice.

Statutory bill (by appellant) to quiet title to some twenty acres of wild, wooded, uncultivated land. The appellant is the owner of the legal title and the appellees (defendants below) rely on adverse pos-: session under color of title to defeat recovery. This color of title of appellees consists of a deed from the State of Alabama to them under date of July 20, 1932, based on a purported tax sale had in 1929. There is no question but that this deed from the State was void, and it is not contended otherwise, since the tax sale through which it came was the result of a double…