Myles Salt Co. v. Board of Comm'rs of Iberia and St. Mary Drainage Dist.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. The facts, which involve the validity, under the due process provision of the Fourteenth Amendment of the action of a Police Jury in Louisiana establishing a drainage district and including property therein not benefited by the drainage system, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Suit to restrain the sale of plaintiff in error’s land about to be made, it is alleged, by defendants in error to collect a tax of five mills for four years aggregating the sum of $2,000 and penalties. (We shall refer to the parties as plaintiff and defendants, respectively, that being their relation in the state courts.)
There is no dispute about the state laws. It is stated in plaintiff’s brief that it is a matter of ordinary geographic knowledge that largé portions of the flat lands in Louisiana adjacent to the Gulf Coast are subject to fluvial or tidal overflow and must be leveed and…
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