Mattern v. Parqutt

Plaintiff, claiming to have bought Lots 21 and 22 in Square No. 2674, bounded by Poy, Duplessis, Manuel (or White) and Jumonville Streets, assessed in the name of defendant, at a tax sale by the State Tax Collector for the City of New Orleans on July 9, 1924, for the unpaid State taxes of 1923, filed this suit on November 8, 1926, praying *770that he be put in possession thereof by the civil Sheriff under Act 170 of 1898.

Defendant answered denying ownership of the property by plaintiff, and, as plaintiff in reconvention, averred that he was the' owner by recorded title and that the tax sale was…