Sims v. Warren
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Itawamba county. HoN. Baxter McFarland, Chancellor. Appellee, Warren, filed the bill- in this cause to confirm a tax-title. The tax collector’s deed conveyed to him “ 80 acres of the S. E. ¿, sec. 10, T. 8, R. 8., in Itawamba county.” The bill alleged that the land intended to be sold and conveyed by this description was the N. of the S. E. £ of said section.
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From the chancery court of Itawamba county. HoN. Baxter McFarland, Chancellor. Appellee, Warren, filed the bill- in this cause to confirm a tax-title. The tax collector’s deed conveyed to him “ 80 acres of the S. E. ¿, sec. 10, T. 8, R. 8., in Itawamba county.” The bill alleged that the land intended to be sold and conveyed by this description was the N. of the S. E. £ of said section. The case was before this court at the October term, 1889, and the reader is referred to the report of the case on that appeal for a full statement of the facts. See Sims v. Warren, 67 Miss. 278. On the…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
We find nothing in this cause as presented by the present record distinguishing it from the case presented on the former appeal. The attention of counsel and court was then directed to the sufficiency of the assessment of the land to uphold its sale for taxes, and we held it to be insufficient. Sims v. Warren, 67 Miss. 278. It is now attempted to support the assessment and supply its defects by evidence of what the tax collector did and intended to do in making the sale of the land for the taxes, and by evidence that payments made by Cummings and the administrator of the estate of William…
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