WASHINGTON-ST. TAMMANY ELEC. COOP., INC. v. ST. TAMMANY POLICE JURY

Nos. 91 CA 1544, 91 CA 1545.

612 So.2d 773 (1992)

WASHINGTON-ST. TAMMANY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC., and Carolyn T. Penton v. ST. TAMMANY PARISH POLICE JURY. LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY and James R. Williams v. ST. TAMMANY PARISH POLICE JURY, and, solely in their official capacity as Tax Collector, Allan Cartier, Parish Manager, Cheryl S. Tanner, Parish Treasurer and Patrick J. Canulette, Sheriff and ex officio Tax Collector.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied March 19, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Galen S. Brown, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants Nos. 1 & 2.

J. Wayne Anderson and Margaret M. Silverstein (LP & L), New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Joseph H. Kavanaugh, New Orleans, for plaintiff.

James L. Alcock, Jr., Baton Rouge, for Louisiana Elec. Cooperatives.

Before CARTER, LeBLANC and FOIL, JJ.


CARTER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a trial court judgment in two consolidated suits involving a franchise fee imposed on utility providers.

FACTS

In his written reasons for judgment, the trial judge set forth the relevant facts of the instant case as follows:

In December, 1989, defendant, St. Tammany Parish Police Jury, passed Ordinance PJS No. 89-1207, and amended it in June, 1990, by Ordinance PJS No. 90-1295. These ordinances imposed...

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