Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad v. Scott

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Ntoholls, C. J.

The petition in the present action was filed in the District Court of Richland on the 24th of July, 1891, and service ac^ eepted and citation waived upon the same day.

In the petition, plaintiff alleged that it was the owner of a large number of tracts of land in the parish of Richland which it set out and described; that the sheriff of the parish of Richland as tax-collector, on the 22nd of December last (illegally) demanded of petitioner, as State, parish, levee and special railroad tax, on a total valuation of said property, the sum of…