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63 Miss. 594

Fitts v. Huff

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1886

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1886-04-15

Hon. J. B. Cheisman, Judge. This is an action of ejectment brought by W. A. Fitts against Mrs. C. P. Huff and Holloway Huff to ■ recover possession of ■ certain lands. On the 1st of March, 1880, the lands in question were sold to the State for the unpaid taxes of 1879. In August, 1880, the former owner, Mrs. C. P. Huff, applied to the auditor to know the amount necessary to redeem the land.

Decided 1886-04-15

Campbell, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2Upon the facts shown by this record the plaintiff should have judgment. The land was not redeemed. The effort of the defendant to redeem was ineffectual. The money sent for the purpose was not enough. The taxes of 1880 were then exigible, and their payment was necessary. It does not appear that any offer to redeem since the expiration of the year from the sale has been made, or that any tender of the required sum was ever made. Whether the former owner would be permitted to redeem after the year allowed for the exercise of that right, because of the misleading information given her by the auditor on the 9th of March, 1881, is not involved here. Upon the facts before us the plaintiff should have a recovery, and the defendant’s right to redeem upon payment of all proper charges on the land may be presented by a proper proceeding for that purpose.

¶3Reversed and remanded for a new trial.

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