63 Miss. 590 | Miss. | 1886
delivered the opinion of the court.
The invalidity of the assessment under which the land was sold for taxes would not preclude appellant from recovery. Cogburn v. Hunt, 56 Miss. 718; 57 Ib. 681; Mayer v. Peebles, 58 Ib. 628.
We approve the conclusion reached in the cause, not because no taxes were due, or the assessment was void, but because there was no law on the 4th day of March, 1878, the date on which the land was sold for taxes, or on the 17th day of April, 1879, when Samuel Kaiser purchased the land from the State, which gave him a lien on the land for the amount of taxes, etc., paid by him.
Affirmed.