State ex rel. Reynolds & Henry Construction Co. v. O'Kelly
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Fifth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Ouachita. Potts, J. In Reynolds & Henry Construction Company vs. the Mayor and Council of the city of Monroe, reported in 47 An. 1289, this court affirmed the judgment of the lower court, which had decreed that relators (the Reynolds & Henry Construction Company) were entitled to a tax upon all the taxable property situated within the corporate limits of the city of Monroe, to be levied on the assessment roll of…
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APPEAL from the Fifth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Ouachita. Potts, J. In Reynolds & Henry Construction Company vs. the Mayor and Council of the city of Monroe, reported in 47 An. 1289, this court affirmed the judgment of the lower court, which had decreed that relators (the Reynolds & Henry Construction Company) were entitled to a tax upon all the taxable property situated within the corporate limits of the city of Monroe, to be levied on the assessment roll of 1889, with the following amendment: * * * u £fje judgment appealed from be amended so as to order an assessment of a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nxcholls, C. J.
The first feature of the proceedings below which is to be observed is that they are not original, extra-judicial proceedings, but proceedings taken in the matter of the execution o a final judgment of this court rendered in the matter of a mandamus ordered. Art. 629 of the Code of Practice declares that it is for the court, whether appellate or inferior, which has rendered the judgment to take cognizance of the manner of its execution when the proper manner of executing it is to be determined. It is unquestionably our duty to se,e that…
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