Carter v. Richland Parish Police Jury

HARDY, Judge.

This is a suit in which plaintiffs, four qualified electors and registered voters of Ward 5, Richland Parish, Louisiana, seek judgment setting aside and declaring null and void a local option election bearing upon the sale of alcoholic beverages in the said Ward, which was held on May 23, 1950. An amended petition was subsequently filed seeking a temporary injunction restraining the police jury of Richland Parish from enforcing an ordinance adopted in response to the result of the election prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages in the Ward in question. On trial of the rule…