Adams v. Forsyth
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Seventh District Court for the Parish of Catahoula, Ellis, J. _ 1.By the restrictions placed to the power of the Legislature to create new parishes," the Constitution manifestly intends to subordinate the will of the-Legislature to that of the people of the parish or parishes to be affected thereby through their ballots.
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APPEAL from the Seventh District Court for the Parish of Catahoula, Ellis, J. _ 1.By the restrictions placed to the power of the Legislature to create new parishes," the Constitution manifestly intends to subordinate the will of the-Legislature to that of the people of the parish or parishes to be affected thereby through their ballots. Act No. 39 of 1886. 2.Section 14 of Act 107 of 1890 does not purport to create or appoint a board or committee of enumerators, but in terms it gives to three designated persons-jointly the power to mate jointly an enumeration of the inhabitants of the old and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
Suit was commenced on August 13, 1890, by the police jury of Catahoula parish, duly authorized by ordinance, joined by sundry taxpayers thereof, alleging the illegality and uneonstitutionality of Act 107 of 1890, creating the new parish of Troy, and providing for the organization thereof.
Averring that said act provides for an enumeration of the inhabi*131tants of said parish — that portion of which the new parish is to be formed, and that portion, also, that will remain after its formation— in order to ascertain whether there is the…
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