Fuselier v. Police Jury
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Certiorari to Court of Appeals, Third circuit. Action by Marie Coralie Fuselier against the police jury of the parish of Iberia. Judgment for defendant was affirmed by the Court of Appeals, and plaintiff applied for certiorari or writ of review.
1Opinion of the CourtBlanchard, J.
Under section 3369 of the Revised Statutes, the iiolice jury 0f Iberia parish appointed a jury of freeholders to trace and lay out a public road from one given point to another.
The jury acted and made report to the effect that they had traced and laid out the road, that it was to be 50 feet wide, and would occupy or take up an area of a given number of acres, and that they had assessed as damages to be paid to the owners of the land over which it passed $35 per acre.
Whereupon the police jury enacted an ordinance ordering the appropriation of the land over which the road was to pass and…
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- State ex rel. Rills v. BarrowSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1878
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