Sandoz v. Sanders
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry; William Pierrepont Edwards, Judge. Suit by Leouee Sandoz and others against J. X. Sanders, Governor of the State, and certain interveners, to invalidate Act June 22, 1908, No. 53, providing for the creation of the parish of Evangeline, together with the proclamation of the Governor declaring such parish created. From an adverse decree, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
PROVO STY, X
In 1908 the Legislature passed Act 53, page 53, adopted June 22d of that year, entitled:
“An act to create the parish of Evangeline and to provide for the organization thereof.”
Section 10 of the act required the board of supervisors of the parish of St. Landry, out of whose territory the new parish was to be created, to hold an election “to take the sense of the legal voters of said parish in regard to the creation of” said new parish. This election was held on April 13, 1909. The present suit is brought by four taxpayers, residents of, and owning property in, that portion of the…
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