Rousset v. City of New Orleans
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Case Certified from Court of Appeal, Parish of Orleans. Action by Paul Rousset against the city of New Orleans. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appealed to the Court of Appeal, which certified the case for instructions.
1Opinion of the CourtNicholls, J.
On the 4th of October, 1904, the plaintiff, Rousset, filed a petition in which he prayed that the city of New Orleans be cited, and that after due proceedings the inscription of certain taxes, tax privileges, liens, and mortgages in favor of that city on property in the city of New Orleans of which he averred himself to be the owner should be canceled and erased on the ground that “they were prescribed.”
The case seems to have been tried on the following admissions of the parties:
“According to the books of the city comptroller the tax liens and privileges sought to be canceled are for the…
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