State Ex Rel. Porterie v. Smith

Plaintiffs allege that the ordinances and resolutions adopted by defendants are unconstitutional, null, void, and of no effect. If that be true, it is difficult to understand how the adoption of such ordinances and resolutions can be an “interference.” It is alleged that the thirteen appointed and the four elected members who joined them constitute a majority of the legally constituted members of the police jury of East Baton Rouge parish; that the said members are in possession of their offices, have, met, organized, elected officers, appointed committees, and that they constitute the police…