Legal Opinion
Guillory v. Jones
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided March 3, 1941No. 36093PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’NIELL, Chief Justice.
Under the provisions of Section 31 of Article VII of the Constitution of 1921, up to November 1936, the State was divided into twenty-six judicial districts. The thirteenth district was composed of the parishes of St. Landry and Evangeline, and the fifteenth district was composed of the parishes of Acadia, Lafayette and Vermilion. By Act No. 3 of the Fourth Extra Session of the Legislature of 1935, the parish of St. Landry was transferred to the fifteenth district. And by a constitutional amendment adopted at the November election in 1936, according to a joint…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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3Cited by10 opinions
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