Bradley-Ramsay Lumber Co. v. Perkins
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from judicial district court, parish of Calcasieu; Conrad De Baillon, Judge ad hoc. Action by the Bradley-Ramsay Lumber Company, Limited, against John A. Perkins, tax collector, and others. The receiver of the Guardian Trust Company intervened. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case
MONROE, J.
Plaintiff seeks to enjoin the tax collector from selling, for a special tax levied in aid of the Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Railway Company, certain lands owned by it in the parish of Calcasieu, and to annul the existing ordinance, and enjoin the police jury from adopting any other ordinance, levying such a tax. The grounds relied on may be stated, in connection with the undisputed facts, as follows:
Upon the 17th of January, 1896, the police jury of the parish of Calcasieu, upon the petition of the requisite number of property taxpayers, ordered elections to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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