Dick v. Foraker

Citations

• 155 U.S. 404
• 15 S. Ct. 124
• 39 L. Ed. 201
• 1894 U.S. LEXIS 2286

Syllabus

<p>The Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas has jurisdiction of a suit in equity, brought by á citizen of Ohio against a citizen of Illinois, to remove a cloud from the title to real estate situated in that district.</p> <p>Without the statutory notice required by the Arkansas statute of March 12, 1881, No. 39, in proceedings for the fixing of fax liens for unpaid taxes upon lands in the State, and the sale of the lands for the non-payment thereof, the court can take no jurisdiction, and all proceedings therein are void; and the fact that the State appeared in such a suit where that notice had not been given, did not give the court jurisdiction, or render the sale validé</p>