Jackson v. Bernstein

For the delinquent taxes of the year 1921, the NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4, Section 11, Township 16 North, Range 9 East in Franklin Parish, Louisiana, assessed to its then owner, William Jackson, was advertised for sale. At the sale, obviously on account of competitive bidding, Henry Bernstein, now deceased, offered to pay the taxes of said year, plus interest and cost, for only seven acres of the land, and the description in the deed to him by the tax collector, as recorded, reads: "7 acres in SW corner of NW 1/4 of NW 1/4, Sec. 11, T. 16, R. 9". The description as first written in the tax deed…