McPhail v. Burris

Citations

• 42 Tex. 142

Syllabus

<p>1. Head-right—Board of Land Commissioners.—It was part of the duty of the Board of Land Commissioners to determine the class to which each head-rig] it certificate belonged, and their action in so doing cannot be attacked collaterally, if at all.</p> <p>2. Recitals.—The recitals in a land certificate are binding upon all persons claiming under it.</p> <p>3. Tax sales—Retrospective law.—The act of February 11,1860, (Pas. Dig., 5188,) making the assessor’s deed prima facie evidence that all the prerequisites of the exercise of the power to sell land for taxes had been complied with, does not enlarge the legal import of a tax deed made prior to the passage of such law. Such law will not be given a retrospective effect.</p>