City of Lake Charles v. Police Jury

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

The appeal is by the plaintiff from the judgment dismissing its suit to enjoin the defendants from collecting parish taxes within the territory claimed to have become part of the city of Lake Charles under appropriate proceedings for the annexation of such territory.

In 1884, proceedings were conducted under the Act No. 110 of 1880 for the extension of the limits of the city of Lake Charles so as to take in the territory within which the police jury now asserts the right to levy parish taxes. The annexation was deemed accomplished under the…