Gayle v. Slicer

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a petitory action, to recover 80 acres of land which the defendant possesses under a tax title. The land is in Bossie’r parish and is described as the E.% of N. E.% of section 8, in T. 17 N., R. 11 W. The plaintiffs are the heirs of Jackson Gayle, who acquired the land from the United States by patent dated March 20, 1877, and who died on September 19, 1900. The defendant is the daughter and only heir of R. B. Hill, who bought the land at a tax sale on the 24th of June, 1905, for the delinquent taxes of 1904, and who died on the 9th of November, 1927. The…