Shaw v. Board of Com'rs of Bayou Terre-Aux-Bœufs Drainage Dist.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Bernard; R. Em-met Hingle, Judge. Action by Daniel Shaw against the Board of Commissioners of the Bayou Terre-aux-Bosufs Drainage District. Prom judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.'
MONROE, C. J.
In June, 1913, plaintiff obtained a preliminary injunction, restraining the sheriff of St. Bernard parish from selling, for acreage taxes of 1911, 1912, and 1913, some 4,000 acres of land which he had acquired in that parish in July, 1911, alleging that he had offered to pay all the taxes claimed, save those levied by the board, here made defendant, for drainage purposes, and that his offer had been refused; and further alleging as follows:
“That all of the * * * lands lie outside of the levee system which the board * * * are building, or proposes to build,…
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