Legal Opinion
McCune v. White
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided March 8, 1915No. 21101Published
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson; Prentice E. Edrington, Judge. Action by Ella McCune and others against William J. White, Tax Collector, and others. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion
On the Merits.
[1] The plaintiff, a taxpayer of Gretna, complained that the mayor and aldermen of that city, -acting under the authority of section 35 of Act No. 136 of 1898,-had, several months after the completion of the state- and parish assessment for the year 1914, raised the assessment of the plaintiff and lowered the assessments of certain other taxpayers of said municipality. The plaintiff alleged that said section violated that part of article 225 of the Constitution reading:
“The valuations put upon property for the purposes of state taxation shall be taken as the proper valuation for…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- City of New Orleans v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1914