McMahan v. American Building & Loan & Tontine Savings Ass'n

Citations

• 75 Miss. 965

Syllabus

<p>1. Tetjst Deeds. Notice of sale. Insufficient ■publication.</p> <p>A sale made under a deed of trust that authorized the trustee to sell after publication “for four weeks next before the day of sale,” is void where nine days intervened between the last publication and the day of sale.</p> <p>3. Privilege Taxes. Invalid contracts. Amnesty act of 1896. Laivs,p. 56.</p> <p>Under the amnesty act of March 3, 1896 (Laws, p. 56), payment by the beneficiary, within the time specified, of double the sum due on account of unpaid pi-ivilege taxes, relieved a trust deed and note, taken during- the period of delinquency, of the bar to enforcement created by the privilege tax law.</p> <p>3. Same. License. Collector's notations thereon. Admissibility of evidence.</p> <p>The noting, by a tax collector, on privilege licenses issued under the amnesty act of March 3, 1896 (Laws, p. 56), of the period, past and future, covered by the payment, was not improper, and did not impair the effect of the instruments as evidence of payment under said act.</p> <p>4. Evidence. Harmless error.</p> <p>The improper admission of evidence in nowise hurtful to the party objecting thereto, is not ground for reversal.</p>