DUFOUR v. WOOD

No. 6992.

346 So.2d 863 (1977)

Witham DUFOUR and Sidney A. Rovira et al. v. Houston L. WOOD, Jr., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 7, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jorda S. Derbes, Derbes & Derbes, M. Arnaud Pilie, Pilie, Pilie & Landry, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellees.

William M. Campbell, Jr., W. Matthew Campbell, III, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Before REDMANN, GULOTTA, BOUTALL, MORIAL and BEER, JJ.


REDMANN, Judge.

This is a class action for a declaratory judgment concerning title to land sold in 1916 for city taxes to Third District Land Company and acquired from the tax purchaser by the husband of a grand-daughter of one of the tax debtors, for precisely the price of redemption but by act which took the form of a cash sale without warranty, executed six days (including a weekend) after the period for redemption had passed.

The trial court held that...

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