Whitehead v. Curry

Citations

• 67 Miss. 637

Syllabus

<p>Tax-Title. Validity. Purchaser; duty as to payment of taxes. Tenant in common.</p> <p>Curry and family lived with, his wife’s mother on land owned by the latter, in see. 2. He acted as agent of the mother, and was to pay taxes, keep up repairs and support her for the rent of the place. By mistake, the land had- previously been assessed as in sec. 3; but he paid taxes several years, the error not being discovered. Meantime the land was sold to the state for taxes. After the death of the mother, the period for redemption having expired, learning of the error and the sale to the state, he applied to merchants for a loan, in order that he might buy the land. They refused him the loan and bought it themselves, but gave him an option to purchase it, which, some time after his removal from the place, he availed of, paying an advanced price and taking the title in the name of his minor children. Held, that this was no violation of any duty to the heirs of the mother, tenants in common with his wife, and that the children acquired a good title</p>