Hyatt v. Police Jury of the Parish of East Feliciana

Article sovonty-four of the constitution gives to this court appellate jurisdiction in all cases in which the constitutionality or legality of any tax, toll, or impost of any kind or nature whatsoever, or any fine, forfeiture, or penalty imposed by a municipal corporation shall be in con-testation, whatever may be. the amount thereof. Plaintiff sued the parish *234of East Feliciana in the parish court for fifty-four dollars, with five per cent interest from the twenty-ninth of October, 1874, for books sold to the parish for the use of the recorder’s office of that parish. He prayed that the tax…