Case ID: la-ann_42/html/0802-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bermudez, O. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 1388.
    Mrs. L. J. Dupre vs. Board of Police of Opelousas et als.
    A tax payer who petitions for the passage of an ordinance levying a special tax; who has so acted in advancement of his own interest, and who has secured advantage from the passage of the ordinance, upon which other parties have acted, is estopped from setting up the illegality and unconstitutionality of the tax as a defence against paying it.
    APPEAL from First Justice of the Peace, First Ward, Parish of St. Landry. Brooks, J.
    
    
      Kennett Bwillio and Laurent Dupré for Plaintiff and Appellee.
    
      W. 8. Frazee for Defendant and Appellant.
   On Motion to Dismiss.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bermudez, O. J.

The facts alleged in support of the motion to dismiss are not established by the transcript which contains the motion of appeal and order therein and the bond furnished thereunder seasonably. The transcript was filed in due time.

The motion to dismiss is overruled.

On the Merits.

This case presents the same issues determined in the suit of Andrus vs. Board, 41 An. 697, with the single difference that the plaintiff here did not vote, but she signed the petition. This is enough to estop her.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment appealed from be annulled, avoided and reversed, and it is now ordered and decreed that there be judgment in favor of defendant, dissolving the injunction .and rejecting plaintiff’s demand at her cost in both courts.