State ex rel. Marrero v. Ehret
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson; Prentice E. Edrington, Judge. Action by the State, upon the relation of L. H. Marrero, Jr., District Attorney, against John Ehret and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
This is a suit to set aside the incorporation of the village of Gretna by proclamation of the Governor of the state pursuant to section 11 of Act No. 136 of 1898, on the grounds that the petition on which said proclamation was based did not contain the signatures of two-thirds of the qualified electors of said village of Gretna, and was not published as required by law.
With this suit was cumulated an action to annul certain ordinances of said village of Gretna extending its municipal limits, on sundry grounds of illegality.
Defendants'excepted to plaintiff’s petition on the ground that it…
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