Broussard v. Louisiana Tax Com'n

Full title: DANIEL BROUSSARD, VERMILION PARISH ASSESSOR, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, v…

Court: Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit

Date published: Mar 3, 1993

614 So. 2d 1345 (La. Ct. App. 1993)

Opinion

No. 92-693.

March 3, 1993.

APPEAL FROM FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF VERMILION, STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE DURWOOD W. CONQUE, DISTRICT JUDGE.

Paul G. Moresi, Jr., Abbeville, for Daniel Broussard et al.

Vyrona Marie Wiltz, Krotz Springs, for Louisiana Tax Com'n.

George Julien Domas, Carol Landis Dunne, New Orleans, for Amerada Hess.

Before GUIDRY, LABORDE and DECUIR, JJ.

GUIDRY, Judge.

This suit was consolidated on appeal with Vermilion Parish Assessor v. Louisiana Tax Commission, 614 So.2d 1341 (La.App. 3rd Cir. 1993), our docket number 92-296, also decided on this date. For the reasons assigned in the companion case, the judgment of the district court assessing all costs at the trial level to Amerada Hess Corporation, Mobil Oil Exploration and Producing Southeast, Inc. and Mobil Exploration and Producing North America, Inc, is reversed and set aside. Costs, both at the trial level and on appeal, are, to the extent permitted by law, assessed against the office of the Vermilion Parish Assessor.

REVERSED AND RENDERED.