Legal Opinion
Tolson v. Police Jury
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided May 27, 1907No. 16,504PublishedCited by 12 opinions
Appeal from Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Tammany; Thomas Moore Burns, Judge. Action by George R. Tolson and others-against the police jury of St. Tammany parish and others. Judgment for plaintiffs, and: defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProyosty, J.
The plaintiffs, in their-quality of citizens and taxpayers of the-Third Ward of the -parish of St. Tammany, contest the validity of an election by which said ward has voted a tax of five mills for-ten years to the St. Tammany & New Orleans Railways & Perry Company.
Among others, the following grounds of nullity are stated in the petition:
*217“First. That the petition to the police jury asking it to order said election was not signed by one-third of the property tax payers of said ward entitled to vote therein.
“Second. That the said petition praying for the calling of said election failed to state…
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