May v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
November 1976
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Walker v. Polk · Hendrix v. Foote · Yazoo Delta Investment Co. v. Suddoth · Bailey v. Fed. Land Bank of N.O. · State Tax Collector v. Fed. Land Bk.
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“A conveyance made by a tax-collector to an individual purchaser of land at a sale for taxes, and the list of lands sold to the state at such sale, shall be prima facie evidence that the assessment and sale of the land were legal and valid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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