Bristol v. Murff

The opinion of the court was delivered by

McEnery, J.

This is a suit to annul a tax sale. The tax collector of Bossier parish sold for the delinquent taxes of 1891 property of the plaintiff, described on the assessment rolls as “ one-fourth interest in Succession of B. F. Hollingsworth. Lot 3 of partition of seven hundred and ninety acres, in Township 18, R. 13, valued at two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.” The taxes due were fifty-eight dollars and eighty cents. Prior to the sale the property had been seized under writs of attachment from the Federal Court.

The grounds for the…