Legal Opinion

Godchaux Co. v. Estopinal

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 15, 1922No. 24528PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Bernard; L. H. Perez, Judge. Suit by the Godchaux Company, Inc., against Albert Estopinal, Jr., Sheriff and ex officio Tax Collector, and others. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, C. J.

This suit involves the validity of a local assessment. In a former suit by the same plaintiff against the same defendant the validity of this same assessment was assailed on the same grounds. The trial court considered the grounds, and affirmed the validity of the assessment. An appeal was taken to this court; and pending this appeal the present suit was brought. The only difference between the two suits is that the fir.st involved the assessment as levied in 1915, while the present involves this assessment as levied in 1916. The issues in the two suits being thus the same, the present suit…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Godchaux Co. v. EstopinalSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1918
  2. Godchaux Co. v. EstopinalSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1919

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Godchaux Co. v. EstopinalSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1922

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