Walsh v. Harang
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Ellis, J. Plaintiffs were the heirs of Michael Walsh, who died in New Orleans on the 7th of December, 1866, bring suit to recover certain property acquired by Negrotto from the State Tax Collector of the upper district of New Orleans, under a sale passed in June, 1885, purporting to be under authority of Act No. 82 of 1884, for taxes charged against said property.
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APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Ellis, J. Plaintiffs were the heirs of Michael Walsh, who died in New Orleans on the 7th of December, 1866, bring suit to recover certain property acquired by Negrotto from the State Tax Collector of the upper district of New Orleans, under a sale passed in June, 1885, purporting to be under authority of Act No. 82 of 1884, for taxes charged against said property. That said sale was null and void for this: There was no assessment against said property, and if any pretended assessment should be shown by defendant, it was not in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholas, C. J.
The property was adjudicated in June,. 1885, to the defendant at a tax sale made under Act No. 82 of 1884. He received a deed on the 6th of July, 1885, and was placed in possession of the property on the 18th' of August of the same year. In the deed of sale it is recited that the property had been previously ad - judicated to the State under the provisions of Act No. 98 of 1882, to ■enforce the payment of the unpaid State taxes due. on and by said property for the years 1870, 1875 and 1878. That it had been again-under Act 82 of 1884…
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