Merritt v. Bossier Parish Police Jury

Notwithstanding the eminent qualifications of the individual members of the jury of freeholders as experts for the purposes for which they were appointed, as well as their unquestioned integrity and good faith, I am inclined to the view, because of their personal interests and activities in promoting the project concerned, and because one member of the jury of freeholders served as a member of the Police Jury when the project was initiated, and voted for it, that the jury of freeholders did not possess that quality of disinterestedness held essential by the Supreme Court in the case of…