Chesnut v. Snell

This is a suit by Mrs. May Chesnut and other plaintiffs, her coheirs and co-owners, suing as owners and possessors, to have a tax sale of the property described in their petition decreed to be a simulation, and as such null an,d void on the ground that it was made without notice to her that her taxes were delinquent; and also because the party who purchased the property at the tax sale had no right to permit it to be sold for taxes.

That the purchaser had the tax sale title placed in the name of another party in order to screen the fact that he had himself purchased it. And the plaintiffs…