Howcott v. City of New Orleans

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Monroe, J.

The petition in this case alleges that the defendant is slandering plaintiff’s title to two squares of ground in this city by having registered in the conveyance office pretended tax adjudications thereof, to itself, which adjudications are void, and of no effect, for the reasons:

1. That they are predicated upon assessments in the names of persons who were not the owners of the property.

2. That the advertisements of the sales contained all the vices and defects contained in the assessments.

3. That the notices of the intended sales, required…