Bernard v. Bayou Portage Drainage Dist.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Martin; James Simon, Judge. Suit by Dumas Bernard and others against Bayou Portage Drainage District and others to set aside an acreage tax levied to pay the expenses of a drainage district. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
The police jury of the parish of St. Martin having established what is called “Bayou Portage Drainage District,” including therein a portion of the town of *639St. Martinville, and commissioners having been appointed and having organized themselves as a board, and the board having ordered an election to take the sense of the property taxpayers upon the question of levying, or not levying, an acreage tax for the drainage of the district, and having promulgated the result and levied the tax, the plaintiffs herein, who are property taxpayers of said district, bring…
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- Dupuy v. Police Jury of Parish of IbervilleSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
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