Scott v. President of the Police Jury
Supreme Court of Louisiana
^PPLICATION for Certiorari and Prohibition. The District Court was without jurisdiction rations waterice to issue a mandamus to the sheriff and ex-officio tax collector, on an application by a president and two members of a police jury who had been appointed a committee with specified power simply to employ an expert and to examiue the books, records and accounts of the said oillcer.
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^PPLICATION for Certiorari and Prohibition. The District Court was without jurisdiction rations waterice to issue a mandamus to the sheriff and ex-officio tax collector, on an application by a president and two members of a police jury who had been appointed a committee with specified power simply to employ an expert and to examiue the books, records and accounts of the said oillcer. That no suit nor judicial proceeding of any kind can be instituted on behalf of a police jury except through the district attorney. District judges can issue the writ of mandamus in cases where no moneyed demand…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Miller, J.
The relator invokes the exercise of the supervisory jurisdiction vested in this court by the Art. 90 of the State Constitution. The proceedings sought to be reviewed were in the Sixth Judicial District Court, parish of Richland. That court made peremptory a mandamus, directing the relator to submit books, papers and documents pertaining to his office as sheriff and ex-officio tax-collector, for examination by a committee appointed by the police jury of the parish, or by the expert selected by the committee. It *279is claimed on behalf of the…
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