Case ID: la-ann_28/html/0017-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wyly, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 5291.
    City of New Orleans vs. the Heirs of de St. Romes.
    This suit is brought against defendants, delinquent taxpayers, after the alleged usual publication of notice. The advertisement, under the statute, has the effect of a citation duly served, and it should bo subject to the same rules as the citation of which it is the equivalent. Notice published to the “ Heirs of St. Romes ” was not a legal citation to Eugene, Victor, and Ermance de St. Romes, the appellants. It was too indefinite to amount to .a citation to any one.
    APPEALS from the Superior District Court, parish of Orleans. Hatoldns, J.
    
      George S. Laceij, City Attorney, and Samuel P. Blanc, Assistant City Attorney, for plaintiff and appellee.
    
      B. Billeul, for defendants and appellants.
   Wyly, J.

The city of New Orleans, after the usual publication of notice to delinquent taxpayers, confirmed in the Superior District Court a default against the heirs of de St. Romes, and rendered judgment for $540 for taxes due the city for the year 1871.

From this judgment Eugene de St Romes, Victor de St. Romes, and ."Emtance de St. Romes have appealed.

In- this court appellants have filed an assignment of errors, the most Important objection being, the notice published did not mention their mames; it only designated defendants as “Heirs of de St. Romes.”

The advertisement, under the statute, has the effect of a citation duly .served, and it should be subject to the same rules as the citation of which it is the equivalent. City of New Orleans vs. Heirs of Schmidt, 10 An. 771. Notice published to the Heirs of de St. Romes ” was not a 'legal citation to Eugene, Victor, and Ermance de St. Romes, the appellants. It was too indefinite to amount to a citation to any one. The •judgment must therefore be reversed.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment herein be set aside and .annulled at the costs of appellee.

Rehearing refused.