State Ex Rel. Bahns v. City of New Orleans

The four judges of the first and second city.courts of the city of New Orleans instituted this proceeding against the city to compel payment out of the judicial expense fund of the additional salary allowed said judges by an act of the Legislature of 1926 (Act No. 195 of 1926).

The five judges of the civil district court of the parish of Orleans, who were recused on account of interest, personal and official, intervened in the suit and alleged that the exclusive control of the judicial expense fund of the parish of Orleans was vested in them by the Constitution, and that said fund was…