Metcalfe v. Wise

Appellant filed her hill to establish her tax title against appellees and to cancel as clouds the asserted title of appellees. The bill showed that the lot in question was sold for city taxes by the city tax collector, on the first Monday in April, 1926, and was unredeemed. The tax deed was made an exhibit, but the bill contained no averment that the original title had passed out of1 the government. It therefore stated no cause of action, and a final decree, although upon a decree pro confesso, would have been reversible, if not void. Lyon Co. v. Ratliff, 129 Miss. 342, 353, 92 So. 229;…