Shaw v. Police Jury of Beauregard Parish

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a suit to annul an ordinance of the police jury of the Parish of Beauregard prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor in the parish. The ordinance was adopted in consequence of a majority vote of the electors voting at a local-option election ordered by the police jury and held throughout the parish, in response to a petition of more than twenty-five per cent of the electors in the parish, under the provisions of Act No. 17 of the First Extra Session of 1935.

The plaintiffs are six electors and property taxpayers residing in the parish, and are engaged in the…