Chapman v. Bordelon

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This case arose in the Town of Ville Platte, a municipality governed by the Lawrason Act, following a municipal election. The pleadings and facts are clearly set forth in the opinion of the Court of Appeal (see 132 So.2d 533), and it is not necessary to reiterate them here except to say that the board of aldermen of the town at its first meeting, by motions adopted by a vote of three to two, named and appointed 24 persons employees of the town 1 and in addition named and appointed a street commissioner, a city attorney, and a city treasurer, and that these motions were…