Wolfe v. Murphy
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hinds County. H'oh. E. G. PeytoN, Chancellor. On the 1st day of March, 1880, the sheriff of Hinds County sold a certain lot of land lying in the city of Jackson, for the taxes which were then due and unpaid, and F. A. Wolfe became the purchaser thereof.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hinds County. H'oh. E. G. PeytoN, Chancellor. On the 1st day of March, 1880, the sheriff of Hinds County sold a certain lot of land lying in the city of Jackson, for the taxes which were then due and unpaid, and F. A. Wolfe became the purchaser thereof. Wolfe received from the sheriff a deed of convej'ance of the lot; and on the 6th of March, 1882, the time allowed for redemption by the original owner having expired, and the lot not having been redeemed, Wolfe filed a bill in chancery against the former owner, Owen Murphy, seeking to have removed from his…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
The assessment was not invalidated because the Board of Supervisors appointed the delinquent assessor to complete the rolls.. It was never contemplated by the Legislature that Boards of Supervisors should, under cover of the authority conferred upon them to appoint some suitable person to complete the assessment, where assessors had failed to do so, appoint the delinquent officer as his own successor, and thu *14extend the time given to him by the statute for the performance of his official duty. The intention was to incite the of-iicer to the performance of his duty, by -the fear of the loss of…
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