Bank of Orleans v. Board of Com'rs
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson; John E. Fleury, Judge. Action by the Bank of Orleans, tutor, and others, against the Board of Commissioners of the Fourth Jefferson Drainage District. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtSummerville, J.
Plaintiffs, owners of a majority in acreage of the property situated within the limits of the proposed sub-drainage district No. 5 of the Fourth Jefferson drainage district, alleged that the proceeding of the Fourth Jefferson drainage district commission creating subdivision No. 5, and imposing acreage taxes on the lands thereof, amounting to $19.30 per acre, and providing for the issuance of $295,000 in bonds to meet the expense of draining the same, are unconstitutional, illegal, irregular, arbitrary, null, and void, and they ask that all of the proceedings of the commission be so declared.…
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