Brougher v. Stone

Citations

• 72 Miss. 647

Syllabus

<p>1. Tax Title. Three years’ occupa/ncy. Defects cured. Code 1880, $530.</p> <p>Where land subject to taxation is sold to the state for taxes, and a purchaser from the state occupies the same under his purchase for more than three years, after one year from the time of sale for taxes, his title, under $ 539, code 1880, becomes unassailable, although the sale was made on the wrong day and under a law (in this case the abatement act of 1875) not applicable.</p> <p>3. Same. Contiguous tracts. Gonstnict'me possession.</p> <p>In such case, where there is a suit involving the purchaser’s title to contiguous lots in a section, embraced in the same deed from the state, and it is agreed that he has continuously occupied one of the lots for more than four years, paying taxes on both, there being nO‘ evidence as to possession of the other lot, his occupancy of one lot under the deed embracing both, will carry with it, as a legal consequence, the possession of the other lot, and his title to both will be protected by the lapse of time.</p>