Kohlman v. Glaudi

Citations

• 52 La. Ann. 700

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1.Adjudications of property to the State based upon assessments and proceedings in the name of a dead man are void.</p> <p>2. -An adjudication of property to a tax purchaser, under Act 82 of 1884, predicated upon prior adjudications to the State, or upon assessments, in the name of a dead man, is void.</p> <p>3. A tax purchaser, under Act 82 of 1884, who fails to pay the taxes due upon the property for 1880, and subsequent years, assumed by him, acquires no title.</p> <p>4. An adjudication of property to a tax purchaser, under Act 80 of 1888, predicated upon prior adjudications, assessments, or proceedings, in the name of a dead man, and without the notice to the owner required by Article 210 of the Constitution of 1879, is void.</p> <p>5. A purchaser of property acquiring from one who acquired and held in bad faith, does not add the time of his author’s possession to his own, for the purposes of prescription.</p> <p>6. The prescription of three yea.rs, under Act No. 105 of 1874, does not apply to cases in which there appear radical defects of title such as those indicated above.</p>