Legal Opinion
Dennis v. Vicksburg Shreveport & Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided June 15, 1882No. 1058Published
APPEAL from the Fifth District Court, Parish of Ouachita. ¡Richardson, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Bermudez, C. J.
The defendants appeal from a judgment condemning them to pay three years’ State taxes, aggregating over six thousand dollars.
They resist payment, averring that they are exempt from such taxes, by reason of the purchase made in 1879 of the property, franchises and immunities of the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas Railroad Company, chartered by the legislature in 1853, (Act 228).
They claim that, by the second Section of the Act of Incorporation, that Company was relieved from the payment of all and any taxation from the beginning of its…
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