Strange v. Federal Land Bank of New Orleans

HIGGINS, Justice.

The plaintiffs, residents of Eldorado, Arkansas, brought this action against the defendants to annul the sale of real estate at public auction in a foreclosure proceeding via executiva, and also the subsequent transfers by the purchaser of property rights in the land to others. The sole ground of absolute nullity claimed by the plaintiffs is that they were residing in the Parish of Claiborne, where the land was located, at the time the foreclosure proceeding was instituted against them and, therefore, the appointment of a curator ad hoc to represent them as absentees was…