MYLES SALT CO. v. IBERIA DRAINAGE DIST.

No. 141.

239 U.S. 478 (1916)

MYLES SALT COMPANY, LIMITED, v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE IBERIA AND ST. MARY DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 10, 1916.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edgar H. Farrar for plaintiff in error.

Mr. L.T. Dulany for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

Suit to restrain the sale of plaintiff in error's land about to be made, it is alleged, by defendants in error to collect a tax of five mills for four years aggregating the sum of $2,000 and penalties. (We shall refer to the parties as plaintiff and defendants, respectively, that being their relation in the state courts.)

There is no dispute about the state laws. It is stated in plaintiff's brief that...

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