Genois v. Lockett
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE BUCHANAN PRESIDING. The plaintiff alleges, that Henry Lockett, one of the defendants, being ah alderman, and member of the council, was illegally employed by said council to assist the corporation attorney, in defence of a suit against the Second Municipality, for which it allowed him a fee of twenty-live hundred dollars ; that the resolution allowing this fee is illegal, null and void ; as, also, another resolution…
Read the full summary
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE BUCHANAN PRESIDING. The plaintiff alleges, that Henry Lockett, one of the defendants, being ah alderman, and member of the council, was illegally employed by said council to assist the corporation attorney, in defence of a suit against the Second Municipality, for which it allowed him a fee of twenty-live hundred dollars ; that the resolution allowing this fee is illegal, null and void ; as, also, another resolution of said council, taking away the authority of the mayor to sign notes and obligations of the municipality, and giving…
1Opinion of the CourtRost, J.
Municipality No. 2, passed a resolution, authorizing the mayor to issue a promissory note to one of the members of their council, for services rendered by him to the said municipality, as attorney at law. The mayor, considering the resolution illegal, refused to approve and sign it. The council persisted by the majority required, and the mayor having refused to issue the note in pursuance of the resolution thus adopted, they passed another resolution,.providing, *547that thereafter, promissory notes and obligations to pay money, authorized to be issued by the council, bonds bearing the seal of…
2Cited by2 opinions
- State Ex Rel. Porterie v. SmithSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1935
- City of Louisville v. MurphyCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1887