Beecher v. Hicks

In this action of ejectment, the plaintiffs below, who are the defendants in error, made out a connected chain of title, and the plaintiffs in error relied solely upon an outstanding tax title in a third person, and upon the existence of an estate by curtesy in the father of the defendants in error.

*208The only evidence introduced to sustain the first of these grounds was a deed executed .by the city of Memphis to E. It. Knight, conveying to him the lot in dispute. This instrument commences with the recital that by a deed of record in the register’s office, u Felix W. itobertson, as tax collector…