STATE, THROUGH DOTD v. KNIGHT

No. 93-767.

631 So.2d 714 (1994)

STATE of Louisiana, Through DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION & DEVELOPMENT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lacey L. KNIGHT, et al., Defendants-Appellees, John & Jean Navarre, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

February 2, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Adams, for State, DOTD.

Lacey L. Knight, et al., for Lacey L. Knight, et al.

Eugene Paul Cicardo, for John & Jean Navarre.

John R. Hunter, Jr., for Estate of Lizzie and Charles C. Clevela.

Before GUIDRY and YELVERTON, JJ., and BERTRAND, J. Pro Tem.


YELVERTON, Judge.

The issue presented by this appeal is whether a tax sale is absolutely null when notice of delinquent taxes and the tax sale was not given to the record owner of the property.

The State of Louisiana, through the DOTD (DOTD), in 1983 filed a petition for expropriation of a small piece of land in Rapides Parish. Unsure of who owned the land, it named as defendants Lacey and Mary Knight, John and Jean Navarre, the Lizzie Cleveland Estate, the...

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