DANTONI v. BOARD OF LEVEE COMMISSIONERS OF ORLEANS LEVEE DISTRICT

No. 42249.

80 So.2d 81 (1955)

227 La. 575

Vincent DANTONI v. The BOARD OF LEVEE COMMISSIONERS OF the ORLEANS LEVEE DISTRICT.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 25, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James David McNeill, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Clem H. Sehrt, New Orleans, Preston H. Hufft, Baton Rouge, Miazza & Drury, Kalford K. Miazza, New Orleans, for intervenor-appellant.

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, R. Emmett Kerrigan, Ralph L. Kaskell, Jr., Gerald J. Gallinghouse, New Orleans, for intervenors-appellees.

Lucien J. Fourcade, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.


PONDER, Justice.

The plaintiff, Vincent Dantoni, a property owner and taxpayer, brought suit against the Board of Levee Commissioners of the Orleans Levee District seeking to enjoin the defendant board from levying or attempting to levy any tax in excess of 3½ mills for the years beginning 1955 through 1959 and from levying or attempting to levy a tax in excess of 2 mills thereafter and to annul a resolution, adopted by the defendant board, to levy a tax of 5...

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