Supreme Court of Louisiana December 15, 1870, No. 2937 (State ex rel. Mahan v. Dubuclet)

lead-opinion

Taliaferro, J.

The relator, alleging liimself to be the State tax collector for the Third District of New Orleans, complains that the defendant, as State Treasurer, refuses to allow him, in a settlement with the treasury, a credit for $14,497 66, the amount of certain State warrants received hy him according to law in payment of taxes, and which were duly canceled, but were