Melerine v. Rausch

WATKINS, Judge.

The present suit was filed by Gaynell Odette Melerine and her husband, Joseph Anthony Melerine, against Lucy Reid Rausch, Clerk of Court, Parish of St. Tammany, and a host of other defendants, in-*426eluding Dr. Alvin E. Johnson, vendee of the property formerly owned by the Melerines and bought by Dr. Johnson at a tax sale. All defendants were subsequently discharged except Dr. Johnson, against whom the present proceeding to set aside an allegedly invalid tax sale was brought to trial and decided. The trial court set aside the tax sale and awarded a monetary judgment in favor of…