Case Name: HAMMOND v. STATE ex rel. COM'RS of LAND OFFICE
Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1931-09-08
Citations: 151 Okla. 127
Docket Number: No. 20367
Parties: HAMMOND v. STATE ex rel. COM’RS of LAND OFFICE.
Judges: LESTER, C. J., CLARK, V. C. J.. and RILEY, OULLISON, SWINDALL, ANDREWS, McNEILL, and KORNEGAY, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Oklahoma Reports
Volume: 151
Pages: 127–128

Head Matter:
HAMMOND v. STATE ex rel. COM’RS of LAND OFFICE.
No. 20367.
Opinion Filed Sept. 8, 1931.
P. G. Fullerton, for plaintiff in error.
Geo. E. Merritt, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
HEFNER, J.
This is an action by F. W. Hammond against the Commissioners of the Land Office of the State of Oklahoma, to quiet title, to certain lots located in the city of Lawton. The lots were originally a portion of a tract of land granted to the state under the Enabling Act for school purposes. They were sold to various persons by the Commissioners of the Land Office and certificates of purchase were issued them which provided for deferred payments as authorized by section 9342, O. O. S. 1921. The purchasers failed to make the deferred payments, and also failed to pay the taxes. The lots were sold to the county at a delinquent tax sale.
Plaintiff thereafter purchased them from the county at resale and a resale tax deed was issued to him. The trial court held the tax deed void and rendered judgment in favor of defendant.
The execution of the tax deed was prohibited by section 9321, O. O. S. 1921. In the case of Clark v. Board of Com'rs of Cimarron County, 143 Okla. 18, 285 Pac. 127, this court announced the following rule:
"The purchaser, at a tax sale, of state school land, sold by the Commissioners of the Land Office on deferred payments evidenced by note and certificates of sale, is not entitled to the issuance of a tax deed to the land, and the issuance of a tax deed therefor is prohibited. His right is to be substituted in the place of the holder and owner of the certificate of sale as the assignee thereof."
See, also, Hammond v. State ex rel. Com'rs of Land Office, 151 Okla. 87, 300 Pac. 396.
Plaintiff contends that section 9321, C. O. S. 1921, was repealed by chapter 130, Session Laws 1919, and further contends that it is unconstitutional. Both of these contentions were decided against him in the ease of Fullerton v. State ex rel. Com'rs of Land Office, 140 Okla. 122, 282 Pac. 674.
Judgment is affirmed.
LESTER, C. J., CLARK, V. C. J.. and RILEY, OULLISON, SWINDALL, ANDREWS, McNEILL, and KORNEGAY, JJ., concur.