Godchaux Co. v. Estopinal
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Bernard; B. Em-met Single, Judge. Proceeding by the Godchaux Company, Incorporated, against Albert Estopinal, Jr., Sheriff and ex officio Tax Collector, and others, to enjoin the enforcement of a local drainage assessment.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The plaintiff company is one of the owners of the lands situated within the limits of the Terre aux Bceufs drainage district. It assails the validity of a local assessment by the said district on the lands of said district, and seeks to enjoin the sheriff and ex officio tax collector from enforcing the payment of said local assessment. The grounds are that the- local assessment *407is a gravity drainage assessment, levied by virtue of an election, wbereas the said land of plaintiff is not susceptible oi drainage by gravity, but only, if at all, by pumping, and that said land cannot possibly be…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- White v. HartSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- Osborn v. NicholsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- Godchaux Co. v. EstopinalSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1918
- Badger-Louisiana Land Co. v. EstopinalSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1918
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