Grasser Paving & Contracting Co. v. Richardson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; George H. Théard, Judge. Suit by the Grasser Paving & Contracting Company against F. Rivers Richardson. From the judgment, plaintiff appealed to the Court of Appeal, which transferred the case to the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
This suit is on a certificate issued for defendant’s, proportional part of the cost of certain sidewalk, etc., work done on the street on which his property abuts. The amount demanded is $310.-69. The Court of Appeal has transferred the case to this court, as involving a tax, and being therefore within the exclusive jurisdiction of this court. The cost of such work is not a “tax” when the doing of the' work has been petitioned for by the property owners on the street. Ayers Asphalt Co. v. Loewengardt, 109 La. 439, 33 South. 553. In the present case the work was so petitioned for.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ayers Asphalt Pav. Co. v. LoewengardtSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1903
3Cited by2 opinions
- Grasser Contracting Co. v. City of New OrleansLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1927
- Grasser Contracting Co. v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1920