Police Jury of Parish of St. James v. Borne

HIGGINS, Justice.

The Police Jury of the Parish of St. James instituted this suit against the defendant land owners alleging that at its regular meeting on September 6, 1938, it adopted a resolution appointing a jury of freeholders to lay out a public road from the main river road to the forty arpent line in the Parish of St. James on the west bank of the Mississippi River, in accordance with the provisions of Section 3369 of the Revised Statutes (Dart’s Stat. § 3635); that after the freeholders had properly qualified by taking the oath required by law, they notified the defendant land owners,…