Florida Savings Bank & Real Estate Exchange v. Brittain

This was an action of ejectment brought by appellant *508against respondents to recover lot one, in block 133, in the city of Jacksonville. Defendants pleaded not guilty. Verdict and judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appealed.

At the trial plaintiff offered in evidence a tax deed dated January 10, 1880, executed by the clerk of the city, conveying the “ south half lot 1, block 98 or 133,” to plaintiff under a tax sale made by the City Collector, March 8,1877, for the taxes of 1876, the city being the purchaser. Defendants objected to the introduction of the deed on the ground .that it did not…