Bellocq v. City of New Orleans

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Manning, C. J.

This suit is an injunction on the part of the plaintiff to restrain the defendant and the sheriff from selling two improved lots in this City¡ under two writs of fieri facias issuing out of the Superior District court, for the payment of the City taxes of the years 1874 *472and 1875, for which judgment had been rendered against widow J. B. Bellocq and the property.

The widow Bellocq was the owner of the lots, and had failed to pay the State taxes of the years 1871,1872,1873 and 1874. The State Tax Collector sold the property on September…