State Ex Rel. Phœnix Homestead Ass'n v. City of New Orleans

McCALEB, Judge.

Wm. W. Noble was the owner of certain real estate situated in the city of New Orleans bearing municipal No. 500 Lower-line street. In the year 1935 he sold this property to the Phoenix Building & Homestead Association. The city real property taxes for the years 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, and 1936 were past due and unpaid, and the real estate had been adjudicated to the city in 1933 for nonpayment of the 1930 tax levy. On April 16, 1936, the Homestead, availing itself of the provisions of Act No. 161 of 1934, as amended by Act No. 14 of the Fourth Extra-Ordinary Session…