Town of Jonesboro v. Jackson Parish Police Jury

The town of Jonesboro is an incorporated municipality with a population of 2,000 inhabitants, and with an assessed property valuation of approximately $750,000 for the year 1931.

Plaintiff alleges that it provides and maintains a system of street paving, and that the property located within the limits of the town is therefore exempt, under section 8 of article 14 of the state Constitution, from the payment of one-half of a general 4-mill tax levied thereon by the police jury for Jackson parish, for general parochial purposes for the year 1931.

In the present suit, plaintiff seeks to have this…