Kelly v. Mendelsohn

Citations

• 105 La. 490

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. Where porperty is pursued in enforcement of a local assessment, to secure which the statute grants the first lien, it suffices to proceed contradictorily with the man in possession as owner under recorded title translative of ownership.</p> <p>2. And the purchaser at the sale which follows acquires a good title by the adjudication, for it is a proceeding in rem — one to enforce a real charge, a debt on the property irrespective of the person owning.</p>