McCready v. Lansdale
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Wilkinson County. Hon. J. B. Ciirisman, Judge. William D. McCready and others brought this action of ejectment against William Lansdale and Alfred Perkins to recover a certain tract of land, which is sufficiently described in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Wilkinson County. Hon. J. B. Ciirisman, Judge. William D. McCready and others brought this action of ejectment against William Lansdale and Alfred Perkins to recover a certain tract of land, which is sufficiently described in the opinion of the court. The plaintiffs claimed title by virtue of a peaceable and uninterrupted possession of the land by their ancestors and themselves for thirty years, up to the 5th of June, 1876, when it was sold to the State for taxes; and they claimed also under a deed dated November 5, 1867. The defendants claimed title through a…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The record contains a very meagre and imperfect presentation of the facts ; but; as understood by us, the land sold to the State for taxes was described as twenty acres of the east part *880of the south-west quarter, and the south-east quarter of a certain section of land; and this is a sufficient description. The twenty acres would be laid off by a straight line drawn from north to south so as to contain that quantity of land east of it, and within the south-west quarter of the section.
We regard the description in the list of lands sold to the State and in the deed of the auditor, as follows : —
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