Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Co. v. Buford
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Bolivar county. Hon. A. H. Longino, Chancellor. This was a proceeding by the appellee, Buford, against the appellants, the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Co. and Abram Williams and William Lightfoot, to remove clouds upon his title to the southwest quarter of section 25, township 24, range 7, in Bolivar county.
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From the chancery court of Bolivar county. Hon. A. H. Longino, Chancellor. This was a proceeding by the appellee, Buford, against the appellants, the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Co. and Abram Williams and William Lightfoot, to remove clouds upon his title to the southwest quarter of section 25, township 24, range 7, in Bolivar county. He set up the following byway of deraignment of title: On April 15, 1867, said land was sold to the ££ Ten Cent Levee Board” for levee taxes; that afterwards it was sold to the state for the taxes of 1871, and duly listed to the state, thereby coming…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
The sale on the fifteenth of April, 1867, vested the title in the ten cent levee board, and the alleged sales thereafter to the liquidating levee commissioners, and to the state in 1872, were void (Shotwell v. Railroad Co., 69 Miss., 541), and, under the provisions of the act of April 11, 1876 (Laws of 1876, p. 166), this title was vested in the state (Shotwell v. Railroad Co., supra). Whatever title the state had was vested in Charles Scott by the auditor’s deed of March 12, 1883. Code of 1880, §561; Caruthers v. McLaran, 56 Miss., 371; Gamble v. Witty, 55 Miss., 27; Paxton v. Land Co., 68…
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