Mississippi Supreme Court, 1906

Howell v. Miller

Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided April 15, 1906 · Calhoon

88 Miss. 655; 42 So. 129

Counsel

Barnett & Perrin, for appellant., Henry, Barbour & Henry, on the same side., R. N. Miller, pro se and for his co-appellees., McWillie & Thompson, on the same side., Argued orally by T. A. McWillie, for appellees, and by R. N. Miller, pro se, and for his co-appellees.

Opinion of the Court

Calhoon, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The “swamp and overflowed” lands were never the subject of taxation and sale for nonpayment. Not being subject to any tax, any assessment and sale of them had no warrant in law, and the purchaser acquired no right against the state, or the state’s vendee, who bought with the warrant of the law for their especial sale.

Affirmed.

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