Canova v. State

LOTTINGER, Judge.

Plaintiffs purchased property at a tax sale in 1969. In 1979, Dorothy Lozano Hubbs, et al, filed suit against plaintiffs to set aside and annul the tax sale because of a defect made by the parish assessor in the property description contained in the assessment and tax sale. In that suit, Hubbs v. Canova, No. 23,808 Eighteenth Judicial District Court, the trial court sustained the exceptions of res judicata and prescription filed by Canova and Pendley. On appeal the trial court’s judgment was reversed and it was held that the tax sale was a nullity, Hubbs v. Canova, 392 So.2d…