Gaither v. Green

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The questions raised in this case are the legality and constitutionality of the five mill district levee tax that was levied in 1886 for the Fifth Levee District.

The plaintiff’s contentions are:

First--That if the tax is claimed to have been levied by the Comsioners of the Fifth Levee District at a meeting alleged to have been held on the 22d of January, 1886, at Delta, Louisiana, it is null and void because there was, in point of fact, no such meeting held, and no such tax levied •, but that three members of said Board of Levee Commissioners…