Canco, Inc. v. Outdoor Systems Advertising

JiPLOTKIN, Judge.

In this appeal we consider whether a purchaser of immovable property can invoke the public records doctrine to deprive his vendor’s lessee of ownership of billboard structures erected on the property. Finding the public records doctrine inapplicable because the purchaser assumed the lease in the act of sale, we affirm.

For many years, Outdoor Systems and its predecessors in interest leased from the Probst family a portion of a lot on the comer of Poydras Street and Loyola Avenue in New Orleans to maintain five billboards on which Outdoor Systems sold advertising.1 Outdoor…