No. 9418 Precedential Processed

Thompson v. Fasnacht

Louisiana Supreme Court · Filed July 1, 1885 · 37 La. Ann. 918

Also decided on this docket: La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., June 20, 1973 280 So. 2d 358; La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., March 10, 1961 131 So. 2d 540

Opinion text

A tax sale under an assessment in the name of the estate of a deceased person, when it appears that the heirs of such decedenthad been formally put in possession of his estate by a judgment of court eight years before the assessment was made, and besides, have been in actual possession thereof from the time of such judgment until the sale, is null, hut the purchaser is entitled to he reimbursed the sura paid by him for taxes at the sale.