Barkley v. Levee Commissioners
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This was an application by Barkley to the court below for a mandamus,-to be directed to the Board of Levee Commissioners of the parishes of Madison and Carroll, in the State of Louisiana, to compel such of said board as then survived to proceed to assess and collect a tax for the payment of a certain judgment alleged to have been recovered by the petitioner against the said board on the nineteenth day of June, 1872; or, if the court should be of opinion that the survivors have not such power, and cannot fill vacancies in their body, then that the police juries of said parishes of Madison and…
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