Tremont Lumber Co. v. Bond

This is an appeal from a judgment enjoining and restraining defendant tax collector and the parish of Jackson from collecting an additional two-mill special property tax, over and above an admitted ten-mill special property tax, to pay certain school bonds issued in 1920 by virtue of a vote of the property taxpayers.-

When the bonds were voted and issued, the Constitution of 1913, art. 281, limited the tax to be levied for the payment of such bonds to ten mills in any one year. And that limit still continues, for the bonds were issued under the authority of that constitutional provision, and…