Newman v. McClure

McINNIS, Judge.

This is a petitory action coupled with a demand that certain tax sales of 80 acres of land in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, be decreed null and void, and decreeing plaintiffs to be the owners of % interest in the land. Plaintiffs allege that they are descendants and sole heirs of Nelson Newman, who died intestate in 1887, and his wife, Rebecca M. Newman, who died intestate in 1921, however they make claim to only % interest in the land, and admit that Harvey B. McClure, one of the de*127fendants, has a valid title to % interest. The tax sales and sales by the several tax purchasers…