State ex rel. Givens v. Anderson

TATE, Judge.

The issue of this appeal is: When property used for church purposes and therefore constitutionally exempted from taxation is nevertheless erroneously sold at tax sale, may the tax sale purchaser (where the former owner’s right to attack the validity of the tax sale has not perempted) require reimbursement of the taxes paid by him from the church property owner, as a prior condition to annulment of the invalid tax sale?

This monition proceeding was instituted in 1957 by Givens to quiet and confirm his title to a certain Baton Rouge city lot that he had purchased at tax sale for…