Alba v. Holstead

HIGGINS, Justice.

The plaintiff, claiming as the record owner of the fee-simple title to 281 acres of land in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, instituted this action to rescind and cancel a purported tax sale dated September 3, 1938, (and subsequent transfers) on the ground that the Tax Collector of Tangipahoa Parish failed to notify the delinquent tax debtor, in accordance with the law.

The defendant, Plolstead, filed a plea in bar on the ground that the plaintiff was an attorney-at-law and an officer of the court, and was, therefore, prohibited from purchasing the litigious rights involved in…