Delta Land & Timber Co. v. Police Jury

This is a suit to cancel a supplemental assessment ,of the timber growing on 3,700 acres of land, for the taxes of 1925, 1926, 1927, and 1928. The timber is valued at $40,125 in the supplemental assessment for each of the four years. The 3,700i acres of land on which the trees stand are part of 32,196 acres .of land which the plaintiff owns and on which the plaintiff paid all taxes for which the land was assessed in 1925, 1926, 1927, and 1928. The supplemental assessment of the timber on the land came about in this way: When the present assessor, who was elected to office in 1928, took charge…