Dantoni v. Board of Levee Commissioners of Orleans Levee District

The gist of the majority opinion, as I read it, is that Act 756 of 1954, amending Section 2 of Article 16 of the Constitution, does not impair the obligation of the contract between the Board of Commissioners of the Orleans Levee District and its bondholders only because the constitutional amendment has not decreased the taxing power of the Levee District from 5% to 3% mills.

It is my opinion that the construction thus given not only disregards the reason and spirit of the law and the cause of its adoption but leads to the unseemly consequence that the people, by the passage of the amendment,…