State ex rel. Parish Board School Directors v. City of Monroe
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Mandamus by the State, on the relation of the Parish Board School Directors, against the City of Monroe and others. After final judgment the relator ruled, defendants into the District Court to show cause why a writ of distringas should not issue against the City of Monroe and why the mayor and councilmen should not he punished for contempt.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
In' November, 1911, the parish board of school directors, of the parish of Ouachita, brought suit against the city of Monroe and its mayor and councilmen, praying that they be directed, by mandamus, “to levy, collect, budget, and do all things necessary to turn over” to it (the board) the proceeds of a 3-mill tax out of the annual tax of 10 mills, authorized to be levied for the years 1911 and each subsequent year; and, after the defendants had been ordered to show cause why the writ should not issue and had shown such cause as they were advised, there was…
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