Edwards v. Butler

Mississippi Supreme Court March 15, 1909

Edwards v. Butler, 94 Miss. 678 (Miss. 1909)

47 So. 801

Whitfield

Opinion of the Court

Whitfield, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The judgment of the court below is correct. It was proper, •on the facts of this case, to allow the value of the improvements. This is clearly settled by the case of Litchfield v. Johnson, 15 Fed. Cas. 590 (No. 8,387), and Wells v. Riley, 29 Fed. Cas. 675 (No. 17,404), and by our own case of Hicks v. Blakeman, 74 Miss. 459, 21 South. 7, Ib. 400. Affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name: George R. Edwards v. George W. Butler
Status: Published
Syllabus: Taxation. Yoid tax sale. Improvements. Compensation for. A purchaser of land at tax sale who, in good faith believing that he was the owner, placed valuable and permanent improvements upon it, is entitled to- compensation therefor, although his title be void because the land was school land and not taxable when assessed and sold.