Oliff v. City of Shreveport

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

This suit was instituted by Lewis Oliff, W. C. Vance and Tames M. Foster, averring themselves to be individually and severally, property holders and taxpayers to the City of Shreve*1205port, and averring, also, that each of them had likewise large business interests in the Parish of Bossier.

In (heir petition they represented that they, in attending to their business interests in Shreveport and Bossier Parish, had need frequently to pass over the bridge constructed across the Red river at a point in the corporate limits of the City of…