Baird v. McNamara

Citations

• 78 Miss. 455

Syllabus

<p>1. Levee Tax Sales. Infants. Redemption. Lems 1858 (special session), p. 33.</p> <p>An infant whose lands were sold for levee taxes under the aet approved December 2, 1858 (laws, sp. ses., 1858, p. 33), may redeem the same within two years after the sale, on the same terms permitted to adults, and may afterwards, within the time permitted to infants, redeem the same by paying, in addition, six per centum interest per annum thereon to time of redemption and all taxes paid by the purchaser after two years from the sale, with like interest on each payment.</p> <p>2. Same. Improvements. Rmts.</p> <p>Under said statute the tax purchaser is entitled to be paid the value of improvements put on the land by him before suit brought to redeem, but not of those put there afterwards ; and the infant is entitled to the fair rental value of the land, as improved, after suit begun, but is not entitled to rents before that time.</p>