State ex rel. St. Charles Street Railroad v. Board of Assessors

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The relator, alleging that it had made application to the Board of Assessors to reduce its assessment, also to the committee of the Common Council on the revision of assessments for a reduction of its assessment, sued for a writ of mandamus against the Board of Assessors to reduce upon the assessment rolls for the State and parish, for the year 1895, the assessment of its franchise from eight hundred and sixteen thousand and two hundred dollars to five hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars.

The facts are that the plaintiff paid three hundred…