Police Jury of Ascension v. Manning

The Police Jury of Ascension, having laid out a public road in said parish, applied to the District Judge by petition, for the convocation of a jury of twelve freeholders, in accordance'with article 2608 of the Civil Code, to assess the damages which might be sustained by the parties, over whose lands the road will pass. The District Judge made an order upon the petition, directing a special jury to be convoked at the Court House in Donaldsonville, within eight days (the court being then in vacation) and that the proprietors of the land to be expropriated, should be summoned to answer and…