Cunningham v. Walker

Act No. 37, approved February 6, 1939, p. 69, by its terms directs that annually one member of the board of commissioners of certain levee and drainage improvement districts shall be elected on the first Monday in May.

The improvement district involved in this discussion was created under authority of Chapter XCVIII, Sandels & Hill’s Digest, as amended by act No. 122 of 1911. The latter act was amendatory of act No. 9 of 1897. Provisions of the law prior to 1939 were that a board of three commissioners should be elected simultaneously on the first Monday of May of each year.

If act No. 37 of…