In re Aztec Land Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Proceedings by the Aztec Land Company, Limited, for confirmation of title to certain lands sold for taxes, -wherein John E. Dupuy and others petition for injunction to restrain the sheriff from placing petitioner in possession. Judgment for John E. Dupuy was reversed, and upon his death Mrs. A. Dupuy and others, his widow and heirs, apply for certiorari and writ of review.
1Opinion
On the Merits.
[4] In its first opinion, the Court of Appeal held that the plaintiff in injunction, Dupuy, had abandoned his suit for injunction, and dismissed the same for failure to prosecute it for 5 years under Act 107 of 1898, but on rehearing this finding was set aside, and the cause was decided in favor of the Aztec Land Company, Limited, on the merits, and sustaining the, sufficiency of the description in the deed to it by the auditor. We think the conclusion that the act in question was not applicable to' the present case was undoubtedly correct, for the reason that, while the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Scott v. Robert H.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1902
- Gulf State Land & Improvement Co. v. Succession of FasnachtSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1895
- H. F. Lewis & Co. v. BrockSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1909
- Person v. O'NealSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1880
- Thibodaux v. KellerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1877
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