Taylor v. Stephenson

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Denying writ.

This is an original action for a writ of mandamus directed to the judge of the Pike Circuit Court to enter an order for the sale of land. After the death of the original respondent, Judge R. Monroe Fields, the case was revived against his successor in office, Judge E. D. Stephenson.

In action brought under an act of 1906, Chapter 22, Laws 1906, it was adjudged on February 14, 1908, that certain large bodies of land in Pike and other counties, aggregating nearly 450,000 acres, be forfeited to the Commonwealth for the nonpayment of taxes.…