Vernon Parish Lumber Co. v. Word
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish of Vernon; John H. Boone, Judge. Action by the Vernon Parish Lumber Company against J. H. Word, assessor, and others. Judgment of dismissal, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
Plaintiff sued to annul an alleged excessive assessment of the 10-miil parish tax levied for the year 1918. The complaint was that the tax was assessed upon a higher percentage of the cash valuation of the taxable property in the parish than was required to meet the budget of expenditures.
Plaintiff therefore prayed for an injunction to prevent the collection of the tax upon a higher percentage of the corporation’s property than was required to pay the company’s proportion of the estimated expendi-, tures of the parish.
The defendants admitted, in their answer to the suit, that the percentage…
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