18 La. 514 | La. | 1841
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff claims, as his property, tw.o lots of ground forming the corner of Estelle and Magazine streets, alleging that he has never parted with his title to the same, nor been legally divested of it. The answer avers that defendant has become the lawful owner of these lots by virtue of a sale made to him by the City Marshal, to satisfy a judgment of the City Court, by'which they were decreed to be sold for taxes due to the Second Municipality.
The record shows that the plaintiff was the lawful owner of the property in dispute by purchase from his brother William Hodge; that in the year 1838, a sum of $106 43 being due to the Second Municipality for the paving of the side-walks of the property, proceedings were instituted under the act of the Legislature, approved the 18th March, 1828, which resulted in the forced alienation complained of by the claimant. The only inquiry before us, then, is whether these proceedings were authorized by law, and carried on in conformity with
The judgment of the Parish Court is therefore affirmed with costs.