State ex rel. Rabasse v. Police Jury of Terrebonne Parish

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Manning, C. J.

The relator is the holder of certain instruments, denominated Bonds of the parish of Terrebonne, amounting to four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars, with interest coupons attached. Having demanded payment of the over-due coupons from the parish Treasurer, and having been refused, he obtained this mandamus to the tax collector of that parish to collect forthwith a tax suffl*288cient to pay the past due interest and that next falling due, and also one tenth of the principal, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March…