James v. Rapides Parish Police Jury

McCALEB, Justice.

Rapides Parish Police Jury is appealing from a judgment enjoining it, at the instance of plaintiff and ten other taxpayers, from paying membership dues of $750 to Red River Valley Improvement Association (a private non-profit corporation) pursuant to a resolution adopted by it on September 10, 1957. The basis for the judgment is that the proposed payment of membership dues to a private organization is an illegal expenditure of public funds, violative of Section 12 of Article 4 of the Constitution, which provides, in substance, that the funds of the State or any political…