Legal Opinion
Ascension Red Cypress Co. v. New River Drainage Dist.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided June 20, 1932No. 31555PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtOdom, J.
Plaintiff is a judgment creditor of the defendant, a drainage district organized under Act No. 317 of 1910. The judgment was rendered on November 4, 1918, and amounts to $5,379.34, with interest from May 24, 1917. The present suit is a mandamus proceeding to compel the drainage district, through its board of commissioners, to pay the judgment.
The defense is that the drainage district has no funds with which to pay the judgment, and that its governing authoritie’s are not vested with authority, either statutory or constitutional, to levy taxes to pay a debt of this hind, and it is therefore…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- State ex rel. Ascension Red Cypress Co. v. New River Drainage Dist.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1921
- Kansas City Southern Ry. Co. v. HendricksSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1922
- Kansas City So. R.R. v. HendricksSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1922
- St. Charles Municipal Drainage Dist. v. CousinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1912
- Sheridan v. Police JurySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1919
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Mississippi River Fuel Corporation v. Roland Cocreham, Collector of Revenue of the State of LouisianaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- Bates v. EdwardsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1974
- Cities Service Oil Co. v. CarterSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1965
- Ernest M. Loeb Co. v. Avoyelles Drainage Dist. No. 8District Court, W.D. Louisiana · 1950
- League of Women Voters v. City of New OrleansLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1979
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