Sunflower Land & Manufacturing Co. v. Watts

Mississippi Supreme Court
Sunflower Land & Manufacturing Co. v. Watts, 77 Miss. 56 (Miss. 1899)
Camfbeli, Woods

Sunflower Land & Manufacturing Co. v. Watts

Opinion of the Court

Woods, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The only question presented by this appeal is as to the effect *63of a deed to tlie land in controversy made by Gwin and Hemingway, levee commissioners, to E. C. Gordon, in the year 1881, viewed in the light of section 1, chapter 23, laws of 1888. The deed from the levee commissioners does not show when, or by what particular sale, the title to the land was acquired by the levee board, and in the case of the National Bank of the Republic v. The Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway, 72 Miss., 447, this court, in construing the third section of this chapter 23, laws of 1888, held that the auditor’s deed to purchasers of levee lands, though declared to be evidence of paramount title, did not operate to absolve such purchasers from pointing out the particular title by which the state claimed. That opinion governs the case in hand. We can add nothing to the reasoning employed in the opinion named, and we shall not mar its symmetry by making quotations from it.

Affirmed.

Dissenting Opinion

Camfbeli., Special J.,

delivered the following dissenting opinion:

I dissent in toto from the above view.

Hon. J. A. P. Campbell, by agreement, acted as special judge in this case in place of Judge Whitfield, disqualified.

Reference

Full Case Name
Sunflower Land and Manufacturing Co. v. Julius E. Watts
Status
Published
Syllabus
Tax Title. Prima facie evidence Laws 1888, p. 40. Green v. Gibbs. Although sec. 3, act 1888 (Laws, p. 401, makes the auditor’s deed to the holder of a tax title under conveyance from the commissioners, in case of Green v. Gibbs, 54 Miss., 592, prima facie evidence of paramount title, one claiming under such deed must point out the particular title which the state claimed, and in aid of which the presumption is invoked when the deed of the commissioners fails to show when or by what sale title was acquired by the liquidating levee board. National Bank, etc., v. Louisville, etc., R. 11. Co., 70 Miss., 447, cited.