Kent v. Brown
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Ninth District Court, Parish of Concordia. Young, J. The tax title pleaded by defendants is void for the following reasons: 1st, There was no sufficient description of the property. B. S. §§ 3266, 3272; Act 42 of 1871, sec, 32; Bur. 330-1; Blk on Tax Titles, pp. 136,137 (a) 148; 13 L. 210; 6 Ann. 542; 8 Ann. 19 ; 9 Ann. 540 ; 32 Ann. 235; 33 Ann. 556,1164; 37 Ann. 61. 2d.
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APPEAL from the Ninth District Court, Parish of Concordia. Young, J. The tax title pleaded by defendants is void for the following reasons: 1st, There was no sufficient description of the property. B. S. §§ 3266, 3272; Act 42 of 1871, sec, 32; Bur. 330-1; Blk on Tax Titles, pp. 136,137 (a) 148; 13 L. 210; 6 Ann. 542; 8 Ann. 19 ; 9 Ann. 540 ; 32 Ann. 235; 33 Ann. 556,1164; 37 Ann. 61. 2d. The rolls were not signed and sworn to by the tax collectors and board of assessors, as required hy law. B. S. §§ 3274, 3273; Acts 1871, No. 42, sec. 39, Blackwell, 122-3-4-9, 281; Burroughs. 274, 296 ; 9…
1Opinion of the Court
Tlie opinion of the Court was delivered by
PochiJ, J.
Plaintiff, as the sole heir of her deceased father, G. F. Sanderson, claims ownership of the “Panola” plantation, in the parish of Concordia, which was the property of her father at the time of his death, in 1863, and which is alleged to he now in the possession in bad faith of the defendants, as owners thereof.
The defendants claim title to the property by right of purchase from W. A. Peale for three-fifths, and from the Citizens’ Bank, and Mrs. Georgia Miller Smith for one-fifth each, and they call their vendors in warranty.
The warrantors,…
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