Hood v. City of New Orleans

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The plaintiffs brought this action against the defendants to have decreed null the tax sale of their property made to the State, to erase the city and State taxes from the mortgage records, and to enjoin the intended sale of their property by the city.

The judgment of the District Oourt, from which the plaintiffs appealed, sustained the injunction against the city; canceled and erased the sale to the State, but recognized the sufficiency of the assessment assailed by the plaintiffs and rejected their plea of prescription.

In 1896 the property…