Lindsay v. First Nat. Bank of Shreveport
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM AND ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT- COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. ' This • was an action brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana by the First National Bank of Shreveport, a corporation created under the laws of the United States, against Robert H. Lindsay, assessor of the parish of Caddo^ the police jury of said parish' of Caddo, and the city of Shreveport, Louisiana.
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APPEAL FROM AND ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT- COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. ' This • was an action brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana by the First National Bank of Shreveport, a corporation created under the laws of the United States, against Robert H. Lindsay, assessor of the parish of Caddo^ the police jury of said parish' of Caddo, and the city of Shreveport, Louisiana. The declaration or petition sets forth that the capital stock of said bank consists of 2000 shares of one hundred dollars each, held and owned…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Shiras,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. •
This was a proceeding instituted in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western-District of Louisiana by the First National Bank of Shreveport, to have declared invalid an assessment of the shares of its capital stock, made by the assessing officers of the State of Louisiana for the parish of Caddo, in the year 1889.
It is provided by the twenty-seventh section of the act of 1886 of the State of Louisiana that “ all taxpayers shall have the right of testing the correctness of their assessments before the…
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