2 Miss. Dec. 467
Decided February 19, 1883
Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1883-02-19
Bill in chancery, by Jeíñe E. Davis, against John Morgan, to set aside and cancel a tax title held by defendant to certain lands described in the bill. Erom a decree for complainant, defendant appeals. The complainant, Jeffie E. Davis, owned the land in controversy, and it was sold by the sheriff of Chickasaw county on the 1st day of February, 1875, for the taxes of 1874, and knocked off to the State.
Affirmed, · Decided 1883-02-19
¶2The levy of the county taxes on July 13, 1874, at an adjourned meeting, was fatal to the claim of title by virtue of the sale for taxes, on the 1st of February, 1875, and the land not having been shown to be of the class of lands to be dealt with under the “Abatement Act” of 1875, the sale on the 10th of May, 1875, conferred no title.
¶3Affirmed.