TIETJEN v. CITY OF SHREVEPORT

No. 2009-C-2116.

36 So.3d 192 (2010)

Douglas A. TIETJEN, Dwight A. Tietjen and Citizens National Bank v. The CITY OF SHREVEPORT and Claude Dance.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 11, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rogers, Hearne & Carter, LLC, Fred A. Rogers, III, Weiner, Weiss & Madison, APC, Michael Allyn Stroud, Amanda Elyce Waddell, Kathryn M. Smitherman, Shreveport, and John M. Madison, Jr., Baton Rouge, for applicant.

The Malone Law Firm, LLC, Dannye Wayne Malone, Shreveport, for respondent.


WEIMER, Justice.1

Suit was filed by property owners and a mortgagee seeking a declaratory judgment to annul a tax sale based on lack of notice. The municipality and the tax sale purchaser were named as defendants. The tax sale purchaser, Claude A. Dance, Jr., failed to answer or appear and a default judgment was taken against him. Following a trial on the merits, the trial court declared the tax sale null and void.

Defendant, City...

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