Klump v. Fontenot

The purpose of this suit is to cancel on the records of Acadia parish two mortgages against a 40-acre tract of land. The suit is based upon allegations showing that plaintiff purchased the tract of land at tax sale, that he was duly placed in possession thereof, and that, as he acquired the property at tax sale, he acquired it free of all mortgages resting against it at the time of the sale. The defenses to the suit are (1) that plaintiff bid in the property at the tax sale for his sister, who was the tax debtor, and hence that the sale amounted to nothing mox-e than a payment of the taxes,…