Abascal v. Bouny

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poems, J.

Plaintiffs and intervenors, residents and tax-payors of the fifth municipal district of New Orleans, commonly known as Algiers, resist the collection of a tax of five mills levied on their property for each of the years 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1883, by the third levee district of the State, on the ground mainly that said district being a portion of the city of New Orleans, the property therein situated is not liable to taxation for levee purposes by any other authority but the council of said city.

Under the provisions of Act No. 7 of 1870, the…