Le Breton v. Morgan

This suit commenced by an application ... . . r for an injunction to prohibit the defendant, sheriff of the parish of New-Orleans, from eel-*139ling a slave of the plaintiffs, which he had seized for the payment of taxes, alleged to he doe to the state.

As the petition not only states the facts on which this application was made, but contains, in a condensed form, the strongest grounds by which it was supported on the argument, we deem it proper to set it out as written.

“Your petitioner represents, that part of the taxes: viz. The additional tax imposed by the treasurer of the state, on the…