Davis v. Simms

OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Owsley.

This is an appeal Tram a judgment rendered against the appellant in an ejectment brought by him in the court below.

The patent under which he claims issued to the appel-lees, but Jw asserts the better right to the land under,a sale and conveyance made by the register of the land office for the nonpayment of the tax due for the year 1805.

From the facts agreed hv the parties, it appears the public printer failed to insert in the, paper edited by him the list of nonresidents’ lands subject to be sold for the nonpayment of taxes for the year 1805, as made out…