State ex rel. Negrotto v. Judges of the Court of Appeals

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

Relator avers that he is defendant and appellee in the suit entitled Frank Haas et al. vs. D. Negrotto, No. 1062 of the docket of the Circuit Court of Appeals, in and for the city of New Orleans, the object of which is to annul a tax sale.

That to said suit he tendered and caused to be filed a plea of prescription, and also an exception of no cause of action, which were, upon the trial thereof, sustained and the suit dismissed; that from said judgment the plaintiff prosecuted an appeal to the court of the respondents, and therein said…