Lacoste v. Department of Conservation of Louisiana

Plaintiffs in error are severally engaged in Louisiana in the business of buying, selling, importing, exporting and dealing in hides, skins and furs, some of which come from wild furbearing animals and alligators in .that State. They brought this suit in the Civil District Court of the Parish of Orleans to enjoin the defendant in error from enforcing the payment of a severance tax levied by Act 135 of the General Assembly of Louisiana, 1920. 1 By that act, all wild furbearing animals and alligators in the State, and their skins, are declared to be the property of the State until the severance…