Houssiere v. City of Jennings

FOURNET, Justice.

This is a suit to contest the validity of three bond issues sold by the City of Jennings, Louisiana, and to enjoin the delivery of the said bonds or the levying of any special ad valorem taxes for the payment of the same on the ground that the bonds were issued in contravention of Article XIV, Section 14(f), of the Constitution of 1921.

In bar of the action the defendant pleaded the 60-day prescriptive period created by the constitution and by Section 43 of Act No. 46 of 1921, Ex.Sess. It also answered denying the illegality of the bonds.

The case was submitted and tried on an…