Edmondson v. Granberry

Citations

• 73 Miss. 723

Syllabus

<p>Tax Titles. Sale to state in 1868. Lodgment of deed with clerk. Adlmowl- ' edgment. Code 1857, ch. Ill, 19, arts. 36 and 39 (pp. 80, 81). La/ws 1863, p. 111.</p> <p>Although a tax collector’s conveyance of lands sold to the state for taxes in 1868 was not acknowledged for more than two years after its date, which is also that of the sale, it is not void for noncompliance with the provision of the code of 1857 (Code, pp. 80, 81), as amended by the act of 1863 (Acts, p. Ill), requiring such conveyances to be “acknowledged in due form before the clerk of the probate court, and filed in his office on or before the second Monday of July, there to remain two years from the date of sale, unless sooner redeemed,” when the certificate of acknowledgment recites a delivery at the date of the deed, and there is no evidence that it was not in fact lodged with the clerk for the period required by law.</p>