Esteves v. Board of Com'rs
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Bernard; Nemours Henry Nunez, Judge. Action by Charles Esteves against the board of commissioners for the Bayou Terreaux-Boeufs drainage district and others. Judgment for plaintiff and intervener, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The plaintiff is a citizen and taxpayer of the Bayou Terre-aux-Boeufs drainage district, and in that capacity brings this suit to enjoin the board of commission- . ers of that district from levying on the property of the district a five-mill tax and a ten-cent acreage local assessment, and from issuing $100,000 of bonds to be predicated on the levy of said tax and local assessment. The petition sets forth various grounds.
One is that a large part of the property included in the district is not susceptible of drainage: it being composed of bays, lakes, inlets, sounds, and waterways-, used as…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Mayor of the Town of New Iberia v. New Iberia & Bayou Carlin Drainage DistrictSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1901
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- Dimmick v. Opelousas, G. & N. E. Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1909
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- Buard v. Board of Com'rs of Portage Drainage Dist.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1909