81 So. 132 | Miss. | 1919
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a contest in equity over the title to the north half of section 26, township 9, range 9 west, in Panola county. Appellee claims title under a deed from the sheriff and tax collector to the liquidating levee board, May 31, 1872, purporting to be for delinquent levee taxes, and made under the acts of 1866-67, p. 237; and upon this title appellee won in the lower court. Appellants rely upon their perfect paper title and also
In the trial of this case before the learned Chancellor, there was no material conflict in the testimony as to adverse possession. The Chancellor found that the evidence was insufficient to make out a case of adverse possession. It would prolong this opinion to relate in detail the facts or testimony tending to prove adverse possession. The testimony, which we have carefully examined, is, in our judgment, sufficient to confer title by adverse possession. The uncontradicted proof shows that the lands at the time they were sold for levee taxes in 1872 were owned by 0. Harrison. Ever since the date of this deed, appellants and their predecessors in title, reaching back to the heirs of 0. Harrison, have had the lands assessed to them and paid all taxes due, and constantly exercised such acts of ownership over the lands as an owner would expect to do or naturally would do with property of this kind. McCaughn v. Young, 85
Let the decree of the Chancellor be reversed, and a final decree entered here in favor of appellants, dismissing the original bill and adjudging title by adveise possession in appellants.
Reversed, and decree here.