F. B. Williams Cypress Co. v. Martin
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Martin; James Simon, Judge. Suit by the E. B. Williams Cypress Company, Limited, against W. O. Martin, Sheriff and Tax Collector, and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
The object of this suit (instituted in January, 1918) is to perpetually enjoin the collection of a road tax, levied by the police jury of the parish of St. Martin upon all the lands" in that parish (save those within the town of St. Martinsville), in so far as it bears upon certain lands belonging to plaintiff, and therein situated, *769and to have the lands decreed “to have been illegally included within the road district and illegally subjected to any tax for the purpose of constructing or maintaining roads in the parish of St. Martin.” A preliminary…
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