Bathurst v. Course

The judgment of the count was pronounced by

Rost, S.

The plaintiffs have enjoined the sheriff of .the parish of Concordia from collecting a tax of five cents per .superficial acre, imposed by the police jury of that parish on certain waste lands, owned by them, within its limits. There was judgment against them in the court below, dissolving the injunction with damages, and they have appealed.

The grounds of injunction are these:

1.That the police jury had no power or authority to enact the ordinance .of the 17th November, 1841, by virtue of which the tax was assessed.

2.That the discrimination in…