McNeill v. Lyons

The appeal here is from an order of the chancellor in which the chancellor dismissed the bill of complaint as to a certain tract o'f land and directing Receivers theretofore appointed to deliver possession of that tract of land to the holder of a tax deed, such holder having acquired the deed during the pendency of the suit and while he was solicitor for the defendants in the suit in which the land was involved.

The question sought to be presented to this Court is whether or not the solicitor for defendants may acquire a tax deed to certain lands then in possession of Receivers under order of…