Chopin v. Freeman
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eleventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Natchitoches; W. T. Cunningham, Judge. Suit for injunction by Mrs. F. H. Chopin against J. H. Freeman, Tax Collector, and others. Judgment for defendants dissolving the injunction and dismissing the suit, motion for new trial denied, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
This suit was instituted on November 26, 1910, by a resident and taxpayer of ward 10, parish of Natchitoches, to annul a special election held in that ward on September 6th preceding, to take the sense of the qualified electors upon the proposition to levy a special tax of five mills for five years in aid of the public schools of the ward. Plaintiff prayed for citation of the police jury, through P. E. Prudhomme, its president, of Edgar Levy, president of the school board, and A. E. Bath, superintendent of the public schools of the parish, for a writ of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Woolfolk v. WoolfolkSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1878
- Adler v. WolffSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1884
- Chopin v. FreemanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1915
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