Whited v. Lewis

Plaintiff, as collector of parish taxes, sues defendant for $100, as the license, fixed by an ordinance passed by the Police Jury of Ouachita, on the business of keeper of a hotel in the city of Monroe. The defense is that by the eleventh sectiou of act 81, of the regular session of 1872, promulgated on the thirteenth of April, 1873, amending the charter of Monroe, all property situated in Monroe, and *569persons following trades, occupations and professions therein, are •exempted from paying taxes or licenses to the parish.

In reply the plaintiff says that said act was not passed in conformity…