Cherokee & Pittsburg Coal & Mining Co. v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Greene, J.:

The plaintiff is the owner of the minerals in certain lands in Crawford county, and was such owner in 1898. The fee to the surface of such *277lands was then, and is now, in others. In that year the minerals were assessed for taxation and the taxes regularly extended on the tax-rolls of Crawford county. In 1899 the county treasurer sold these minerals for the unpaid taxes of 1898, and issued tax-sale certificates therefor to the purchasers. In the spring of 1902 he published the statutory notice of final redemption and deeds to be issued on the…