Succession of Zebriska
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish or Orleans; Walter Byers Sommerville, Judge. In the matter of .the succession of Odelie Zebriska. Rule against adjudieatee at judicial sale, to accept title. The city of New Orleans filed an intervention, and plaintiffs in rule appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
An adjudication was made, at judicial sale in the succession of Odelie Zebriska, of squares 117 and 124 and of 24 lots of square 116, in the town of Harlem, parish of Jefferson, at the upper boundary of the city of New Orleans; and, the adjudicatee having refused to accept title, the present proceeding was brought to compel him to do so. His ground of refusal is that, so far as appears from the public records, the property belongs to the city of New Orleans; there being of record an act of sale of it to the city by Wm. Zebriska, the former owner of record, of date March 25,1862, and nothing…
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