Mayor of the Town of New Iberia v. New Iberia & Bayou Carlin Drainage District

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Monroe, J.

The plaintiffs in these, consolidated, cases, sued to restrain the Board of Commissioners of the Bayou Carlin Drainage District from holding an election, which had been ordered by them for October 3rd, 1900, to take the sense of the qualified voters of said district upon the question of imposing a special tax for drainage purposes, the Mayor and Board of Trustees of the town of New Iberia claiming that the power is vested in them to order such elections *652where the tax is to be imposed upon property within the corporate limits of the town, and…