Edwards v. Butler

Citations

• 89 Miss. 179
• 42 So. 381

Syllabus

<p>1. Taxation. Chickasaw school lands. Acts of Congress, 5 Stat. at Large 116, ch. 355; II). 490, ch. 39.</p> <p>Lands granted to the state by congress “for the use and benefit of schools,” known as the “Chickasaw school lands,” were not taxable while title remained in the state, and a sale for taxes of nontaxable land is void.</p> <p>2. Same. Auditor’s deed.</p> <p>An auditor’s deed, predicated of a tax sale, will not invest the grantee therein with title to Chickasaw school land improperly sold to the state for taxes before it became the subject of private ownership.</p> <p>3. Same. Laws 1888, ch. 23, p. 40. Quieting tax titles.</p> <p>Laws 1888, ch. 23, p. 40, entitled “An act to quiet and settle the title to certain lands in Yazoo Delta which were sold by the commissioners of the chancery court of Hinds county,” etc., embraced no other lands than those mentioned in the caption of the aett and had no relation to Chickasaw school lands which had been illegally sold by the state for taxes.</p>