Gooden v. Police Jury of Lincoln Parish

Citations

• 122 La. 755
• 48 So. 196
• 1908 La. LEXIS 511

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations (§ 874*) — Statutes (§ 183*) — Railroads — Municipal Aid — Elections — Petition—Suppicienct.</p> <p>The plaintiffs in this case obtained a judgment setting aside a special tax which had been voted for by the property tax payers of ward 1 of Lincoln parish in favor of a railroad corporation under the provision of article 270 of the-Constitution and Act No. 202, p_. 483, of the same year, and enjoining the police jury from collecting the tax. The tax had been voted at an election ordered by the police jury upon a petition of property tax payers. The ground assigned for setting aside the special tax and enjoining its collection was that the petition addressed to the police jury did not set forth' the amount to be raised each year, but only a rate of five mills per annum was stipulated to be raised each year, and that it did not set out any definite number of years that the tax should-run, but only that it should not exceed 10 years. Held,, for reasons assigned, that the judgment appealed from was erroneous. Judgment reversed.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Municipal Corporations, Cent. Dig. § 1851; Dec. Dig. §; 874;* Statutes, Cent. Dig. § 261; Dec. Dig. § 183. *1</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>