State ex rel. Ferguson v. Caffery
Supreme Court of Louisiana
\ PPEAL from the Seventeenth Judicial District Oourt for the Parish of Lafayette. DeBaillon, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, C. J.
Relator averred that the citizens of the town of Lafayette, desiring to erect certain improvements, viz.: an electric light plant and system of waterworks, and availing themselves of the provisions of Art. 209 of the Constitution of the State, and Act No. 125 of the General Assembly, session of 1882, relative to the levying of taxes, did, in accordance and compliance with an ordinance passed at a session of the council, of the town of Lafayette, passed on the 24th of February, 1896; being an ordinance submitting to the people of the town…
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