Legal Opinion

State Ex Rel. Fontenot v. Standard Dredging Corp.

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided December 9, 1949No. 38784PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The State of Louisiana is appealing from a judgment dismissing its suit against the Standard Dredging Corporation wherein it seeks to recover taxes accrued through 1945 in the total sum of $11,701.35, with interest and penalties, claimed as being due the State of Louisiana under the provisions of Act No. 25 of the Second Extra Session of 1935, as amended, commonly known as the power tax statute.

This suit, when originally instituted in December, 1940, was to recover taxes alleged to be due the State at that time in the amounts of $150, additional taxes for the year 1939,…

2Cases cited14 opinions

Hall v. DeCuirSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
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Moran v. New OrleansSupreme Court of the United States · 1884

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