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Charles SLAY, Jr., Assessor For Rapides Parish, La. v. LOUISIANA & ARKANSAS RAILWAY COMPANY and Louisiana Tax Commission.
    No. W88-565.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
    June 14, 1988.
    Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, PLC, Hilton S. Bell, John W. Colbert, Mary G. Holmes, New Orleans, for defendant/applicant.
    Robert H. Abbott III, Baton Rouge, for defendant/respondent.
    Bernard Kramer, Alexandria, for plaintiff/respondent.
    Before FORET, LABORDE and YELYERTON, JJ.
   WRIT DENIED: There appears to be no. error in the trial court’s judgment maintaining venue in Rapides Parish; as LSA-R.S. 47:1998 specifically gives taxpayers and assessors the right to bring suit, and regulates the procedure for bringing suit, including venue. Dow Chemical Co. v. Pitre, 421 So.2d 847 (La.1982).