State ex. rel. Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Railway v. Read

Citations

• 52 La. Ann. 1880

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>Where property taxpayers lile a suit, under Act 10G of 1892, and fail to cause the Police Jury to be cited, and the Police Jury takes no notice of such suit, and it is dismissed, at the instance of the plaintiffs, and of a defendant, who was cited and who answered, the Police Jury cannot, thereafter, merely by filing an answer, reinstate and reopen the case; and a writ will issue, at the instance of the defendant who was cited,' prohibiting further proceedings in such case upon the theory of its being a matter still pending and undetermined.</p>