R. McWilliams, Ltd v. Gulf States Land & Improvement Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Ered D. King, Judge. Action by R. McWilliams, Limited, against Gulf States Land & Improvement Company. Defendant filed exceptions of no cause of action. Judgment, for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
Plaintiff corporation brought this action in July, 1902, alleging that it had acquired two improved lots of ground in New Orleans by notarial act registered March 10, 1898, from Nicolas D., Edith Marie, Stanley Albert, Lillian, Herbert, Joseph, Clarence J., Ophelia Marie, and Edna Louise Harvey; that the defendant corporation claims said lots under an act of sale from the state tax collector of date September 22, 1899, purporting to convey them to it in consideration of the payment of the state tax of 1898, but that said act and the proceedings leading thereto…
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