Cross v. Police Jury

The Police Jury of the parish of Lafourche Interior, in November, 1842, passed a resolution, directing that a jury of seven freeholders should be appointed, for the purpose of laying out a public road from the bayou Lafourche, “so as to effect a free and easy communication to the bayous Sec, L’Ours and Chackbé,” in compliance with the act of the Legislature, passed in 1818, relating to the public roads in the State. B. & C.’s Digest, 737. Acts of 1818, p. 54. The jury being duly qualified, proceeded to discharge the duties imposed on them, and after various examinations of different routes,…