Chapman v. Bordelon

It is with some regret that the writer must differ from his conscientious brethren of the majority. If only one municipality were concerned, perhaps the majority’s construction of the Lawrason Act, LSA-R.S. 33:321 et seq., could be allowed to pass in silence; but the effect of the majority’s interpretation of this general statute (providing a form of government for some two hundred municipalities in this state) is, in my opinion, to effect so radical a change in the municipal government of this state as to require, for the benefit of any higher reviewing court, a full exposition of the…