State v. Farmers Coal Co.

To my mind the principal difficulty that arises in matters of this kind springs from the effort to reconcile the provision of Article XIII, Section 4 of our Constitution requiring that land purchased by the State at a sale for delinquent taxes must become irredeemable before sold by the State in a proceeding brought by it in the circuit court of the county in which the land or a part thereof is situated, for that purpose, and the provision of Section 5 of the same article granting the former owner the right to receive the excess of the sum for which the land may be sold above the aggregate of…