King v. Police Jury

This case presents the following question: Is the parish of St. Landry liable in damages for an injury to the property of one of its citizens, occasioned by the ruinous condition of one of the parish bridges connecting a highway across the Bayou Téehe ?

There was no law which compelled the parish of St. Landry to build the bridge in question. Having built it, there was no law which required the parish to keep it in perpetual repair. The whole subject seems to have been confided to the uncontrolled discretion of the Police Jury of the parish.

“ The Police Juries shall have power to make all such…