Bentley v. Cavallier

Citations

• 121 La. 60
• 46 So. 101
• 1908 La. LEXIS 633

Syllabus

<p>1. Taxation — Tax Sale — Redemption.</p> <p>One who has possessed a tract of land as owner for a number of years is considered in law as provisional owner, with exclusive rights of entry and possession, and is entitled to redeem the land from a tax sale.</p> <p>2. Same — Tendee by Redemption.</p> <p>Where land has been sold at tax sale, a tender of the price, with costs and penalties,, made to the purchaser within the year following, will work a redemption of the property and wipe out the tax title.</p> <p>TEd. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 45, Taxation, §§ 1436, 1437.]</p> <p>Provosty, J., dissenting.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>