State ex rel. Fisk v. Police Jury

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

It appears from a re-examination of the record herein that the relator avers that defendant parish was indebted to him in the sum of $4,454 (in capital), which with costs and interest added, aggregates the sum of $5,411, and which is evidenced by sundry judgments enumerated, that “were to enforce contracts which were made duriug the years 1871, 1872, 1874, 1875, 1876 and 1877. That during that period of time the limit of taxation for parochial purpose was 100 per cent of the State tax for any year. That during said years the rate of taxation…