Pugh v. Prudhomme

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is an appeal by an adjudicatee from a judgment ordering him to take title to a piece of real estate which he bid in at public sale in a foreclosure proceeding. The sole reason assigned by him for not accepting title to the property is that the notices of sale were published in “The Caddo Gazette,” which he claims is not a newspaper qualified to advertise legal notices of sale under the provisions of section 16 of Act No. 49 of 1877.

In the case of McDonald v. Shreveport Mut. Bldg. Ass’n, 178 La. page 645,152 So. 318, 320, this court considered the identical question…