Thayer v. Hartman

Citations

• 78 Miss. 590

Syllabus

<p>1. Courthouse. Board of supervisors. Power to designate. Code 1892, § 306. Tax sales, place of.</p> <p>The courthouse having been destroyed, a tax sale made at a building in the county seat, under an order of the board of supervisors of the same date designating it as the courthouse and the place where tax sales should be made, is not void because not made at the courthouse, under code 1892, 3811, 3813.</p> <p>2. Tax Sales. Purchaser. Previous claim of ownership.</p> <p>That the purchaser at a tax sale had bid the land off at an execution sale two years previously does not, the execution sale having been vacated, preclude him from acquiring title under his tax deed.</p>