Hooper v. Walker

the Court.

This suit is brought by the appellant, S. J. Hooper, as vendee of a patentee from the State, to confirm his title to 20 acres of land which was sold in Jefferson Davis County on October 11, 1937, to the State while owned by the appellee, Patsy Ann Walker, and assessed to her husband, Roscoe Walker, who were in the actual possession of the land both at the time of the tax sale and when this,suit was brought on August 1, 1944. In fact Patsy Ann acquired the land on February 10,1909, by warranty deed from her grandfather, the patentee of the United States Government, and she has since…