Musson v. Recorder of Mortgages

His Honor Judge Frank McGloin

delivered the opinion and decree of the court in the words and figures following, to wit;

Plaintiff seeks, by mandamus, to compel the recorder of mortgages for the parish of Orleans to cancel the inscription of a state tax for the year 1871, which is registered as bearing upon real property belonging to relator. He alleges a tax collector’s sale in 1875, for taxes of 1872, and 1873, contending that all demands of a state prior to said sale were destroyed thereby. It is also urged that the tax whose inscription is complained of is prescribed by the lapse of ten…