Legal Opinion
Thistlethwaite v. Mayor & Board of Aldermen of City of Opelousas
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided March 2, 1942No. 36561PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Justice.
On September 9, 1941, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, acting as the governing authority of the City of Opelousas, adopted a resolution providing for the issuance of refunding bonds to the amount of $93,000 and levying annually a special ad valorem tax for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds.
On November 27, 1941, Lawrence Thistlethwaite, a resident and taxpayer of the city, brought this suit against the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to have the resolution of September 9, 1941, delared unconstitutional and therefore without effect.
Without answering to the…
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