Sandoz v. Sanders
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry; William Pierrepont Edwards, Judge. Suit by Leouee Sandoz and others against J. X. Sanders, Governor of the State, and certain interveners, to invalidate Act June 22, 1908, No. 53, providing for the creation of the parish of Evangeline, together with the proclamation of the Governor declaring such parish created. From an adverse decree, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion
On Application for Rehearing.
LAND, J.
We shall consider the errors assigned in the petition for a rehearing in the order presented.
Jurisdiction.
On the question as to what extent the division of the parish of St. Landry will work damage to the plaintiffs, we admit our mistake in stating that there was no evidence contrary to the testimony given by the plaintiffs. There is the testimony of two witnesses to the contrary, but on the whole evidence we are not prepared to say that the Supreme Court is without jurisdiction of this appeal.
Representation.
The General Assembly, with but one spare…
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