State ex rel. Carey v. Sanders
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge; 1-1. F. Brunot, Judge. Mandamus proceeding by the State, on the relation of S. (L. Carey and others, against J. Y. Sanders, Governor, in which J. G. Gray and others intervened. From a judgment for respondent, relators appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
The relators, as residents, taxpayers, and property owners of the parish of Calcasieu and other parishes, instituted a mandamus proceeding against Jared Y. Sanders, Governor of the state of Louisiana, to compel him to proceed without unnecessary delay to issue the commissions and to make the appointments necessary according to law for the organization of Jefferson Davis parish, alleged to have been created by Act No. 77 of 1910.
The Governor, through his counsel, the Attorney General, answered that said statute was inoperative and without legal effect, because it was conditioned on its…
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