Bonvillain v. Richaud

This is an action to redeem a title lost by tax sale, or, in the alternative, to have the sale declared null. The suit was dismissed on an exception of no cause of action and the judgment waá affirmed by the Court of Appeal.

According to the allegations of the petition, plaintiffs are the six children, the only heirs at law, of Mrs. Susanna Nixon Bonvillain, who died on the 4th of March, 1913, when all of the plaintiffs were minors. Four of them are yet minors, represented by a tutor. The property in contest, being a house and lot, of small value, belonged to the plaintiffs’ mother until her…