School Board v. Meredith
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Thirtieth Judicial District Court, Parish of Caldwell; George Wear, Sr., Judge. Application of the School Board of the Parish of Caldwell for the appointment of a judicial liquidator to the Pine Grove Academy, against J. J. Meredith and another, liquidators. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSommerville, J.
The Legislature, in 1838, in Act No. 76, p. 79, incorporated the Pine Grove Academy, in the parish of Caldwell. In the first section of the act 15 persons were named and constituted “a body corporate and politic” by the name and style of the trustees of the Pine Grove Academy; they were given perpetual succession; the power to sue and be sued; and all such other- powers as were exercised and possessed by similar corporations in the state. In section 4, the trustees were given full authority to fill all vacancies that might be caused in their own body by death or otherwise. In section 2, it…
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