Cranford v. City of Lake Charles

TATE, Judge.

Plaintiffs, officers of the Lake Charles Fire Fighters Association of the employees of the Lake Charles Fire Department, seek a mandatory injunction ordering the defendant City of Lake Charles to appoint three additional assistant fire chiefs as allegedly required by State statute. Plaintiffs appeal from judgment dismissing their suit on an exception of no cause of action.

The allegations of the petition, which must be accepted as true for purposes of passing on this exception of no cause of action, show that the City of Lake Charles is’ divided into two fire districts, with one…