Legal Opinion
Higginbotham v. City of Baton Rouge
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided June 27, 1938No. 33991PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’NIELL, Chief Justice.
The plaintiff is appealing from a judgment dismissing his suit on an exception of no cause or right of action. He claims that, having been employed by the Commission Council of the City of Baton Rouge, on January 9, 1935, as Superintendent of Public Parks and Streets, for a term to continue until the next day after the first Monday in November, 1936, at a salary of $5,000 per year, he was discharged by the Commission Council, without just cause, on March 22, 1935, and was paid his salary only to the end of that month. Hence he sues for the balance of the salary that he…
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3Cited by11 opinions
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