SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSP. CO. v. PARISH OF JEFFERSON

No. 55848.

315 So.2d 619 (1975)

SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PARISH OF JEFFERSON et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 23, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

V. Gerald Dean, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, M. Truman Woodward, Jr., Guy C. Lyman, Jr., Hilton S. Bell, Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer & Pierson, J. Barnwell Phelps, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.

A. Rudy Eason, Parish Atty., Nathan Greenberg, Greenberg & Dallam, Gretna, for defendants-appellees.


TATE, Justice.

The plaintiff railways sue for judgment declaring unconstitutional a tax ordinance of Jefferson Parish. Made defendant is the Parish and certain of its officials.

The plaintiffs appeal from judgment of the district court dismissing their suit. (They appeal directly to this court on the ground that the case involves a contest of the constitutionality and legality of a tax, a valid ground for direct appeal under the 1921 constitution in effect...

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