Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railway Co. v. Goodenough
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Fourth Judicial District, Parish of Lincoln— Dawlcins, J. Statement of the Case. The plaintiffs alleged that they were owners of certain property in the town of Ruston, which they described; that that town had caused said property, through its tax collector, Goodenough, to be seized and ■advertised for sale; in enforcement of a five-mill tax levied for the year 1900 in favor and in aid of the Arkansas Southern Railroad Company, as assignee and transferee of…
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APPEAL from the Fourth Judicial District, Parish of Lincoln— Dawlcins, J. Statement of the Case. The plaintiffs alleged that they were owners of certain property in the town of Ruston, which they described; that that town had caused said property, through its tax collector, Goodenough, to be seized and ■advertised for sale; in enforcement of a five-mill tax levied for the year 1900 in favor and in aid of the Arkansas Southern Railroad Company, as assignee and transferee of the Alexandria Junction City and Shreveport Railroad Company, a corporation formerly organized and doing business under…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, O. J.
The main issue in this case, as appears by the agreed statement of facts accompanying this opinion, is as to the constitutional right and power and the extent of the constitutional right and power of the taxpayers of the town of Ruston, in Lincoln Parish, to tax themselves in aid of a railroad enterprise, independently of the action of the taxpayers of the Parish of Lincoln, under the provisions of Article 270 of the Constitution of 1898. The question is whether, after the taxpayers of the Parish of Lincoln .as such, had voted in favor…
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