Mire v. La Salle Realty Co.

ROGERS, Justice.

Defendant appeals from a judgment annulling a tax sale of the property bearing the municipal No. 1510 North Prieur street made to defendant by the city of New Orleans on. January 26, 1928, for the delinquent taxes of the year 1925. The judgment awards defendant $177.95, with interest, for taxes paid by it, but condemns defendant to pay plaintiffs $49, with interest, for rents collected by it.

Plaintiffs, who are of the negro race and nonresidents, are the sister and brothers of the late Alfred Mire, who purchased the property in dispute on November 17, 1898, by a notarial act…