Opinion ID: 1753810
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Heading Rank: 16

Heading: SE 1/4 of NW 1/4 of Section 21

Text: This parcel was included in the 1878 tax sale. The doctrine raises the presumption that the school board conveyed title to this parcel prior to the tax sale. Jones v. Gulf Refining Co., 202 Miss. 705, 32 So.2d 435 (1947). Thus, the 1883 lease of Parcel A to Rees was of no effect, since the county is presumed to have had no interest to convey at that time. Record title to Parcel A in 1883 would have been in Ussery, the purchaser at the 1878 tax sale. Although appellees trace their chain of title to this parcel directly to the Rees estate, the first record conveyance of Parcel A in fee is from F.L. Rye to P.R. Pool in 1907. Under these circumstances the doctrine operates to presume a grant from Ussery to F.L. Rye sometime between 1878 and 1907. Scarborough v. Native Lbr. Co., 118 Miss. 138, 79 So. 84 (1918). Thus, title to the SE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 21 is perfected in appellees.