Schoeffner v. Schoeffner’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““2 (b) The Baronne Street Paving Lien. “The Baronne street property, municipal Nos. 2305-07-09, was adjudicated to defendant May 19, 1927. Although the City of New Orleans 'recorded its ordinance March 9, 1927, declaring that it would pave Baronne street, no work had commenced. There was no debt due for the paving, and there, was no possible way to fix the amount of the paving bill, as to the Baronne street property, when the auction sale occurred, even if it be conceded, under section 44 of Act 346 of 1926, that ‘from the date of recordation of said ordinance it shall operate as a first lien and privilege on all property to be affected thereby.’ “Under such state of facts, we do not well see how the community can be legally held liable to defendant, as the adjudicatee of the Baronne street property, with respect to the paving privilege, the amount of which was not susceptible of ascertainment at the date of the auction sale. Not the community, in such case, but defendant as vendee became the beneficiary of the improvement, and must be presumed to have been compensated for the cost by the resulting advantage. The community therefore should not be charged with the Baronne street paving in the present case. Etta Contracting Co. v. Bruning, 134 La. 48 , 63 So. 619 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Succession of Drouant