Messina v. Owens

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This is a suit to have declared null and void a tax sale and to have set aside and cancelled from the records the tax deed resulting therefrom.

Plaintiff alleges in his petition filed on March 9, 1943, that he acquired from one J. T. Bergherm and Mrs. Betty Bergherm on March 12, 1931, as per deed recorded in Conveyance Book 207, page 389, of the Conveyance Records of Ouachita Parish, 16 acres of property situated near the City of West Monroe in Ward 5 of the Parish of Ouachita, State of Louisiana, said property being described as follows: “The South Sixteen (16) acres of the…