Case Name: STANDARD OIL CO. OF LOUISIANA v. JOY et al.
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1933-10-16
Citations: 150 So. 443
Docket Number: No. 14251
Parties: STANDARD OIL CO. OF LOUISIANA v. JOY et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter
Volume: 150
Pages: 443–443

Head Matter:
STANDARD OIL CO. OF LOUISIANA v. JOY et al.
No. 14251.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana. Orleans.
Oct. 16, 1933.
T. M. Milling, F. L. Hargrove, and A. M. Curtis, all of New Orleans, for appellant.
Francis P. Burns, of New Orleans, for ap-pellees.
Writ of certiorari granted November 27, 1933.

Opinion:
JANVIER, Judge.
Plaintiff succeeded to all the rights of Liberty Oil Company in a lease under which that company was tenant and the present defendants were owners. Having paid certain paving assessments levied against the said property, plaintiff, alleging that it was not' obligated under the terms of the said lease to pay the said charges, and that the said payments were made only because it was required to make them in order to maintain its peaceable possession of the premises, now seeks from the owners of the property reimbursement of the amounts so paid.
In Liberty Oil Company, Ltd., v. Mary Joy et al., 150 So. 440, decided by us to-day, we held that the written lease cannot be construed, otherwise than as placing upon the tenant the duty of making payments of the special paving charges.
Plaintiff has no greater rights than had the original tenant whose lease it has assumed, and plaintiff is likewise obligated, as was the original tenant.
For the reasons given in Liberty Oil Co. v. Joy et al., it is ordered, adjudged, and decreed that our original decree be and it is reinstated and made the final judgment of this court.
Original decree reinstated.