State v. Maestri

ROGERS, Justice.

The State of Louisiana, through its Attorney General, and the Crime Commission, created by Act 13 of 1940, and the Departments of Conservation and Minerals brought this suit against Robert S. Maestri, formerly Conservation Commissioner, and the Canal Oil Company, Inc. The action, as disclosed by the prayer of the petition, is in declaration of forfeiture and for the money and property claimed to have been forfeited to the plaintiffs under Section 7 of Act 127 of 1912.

The defendants excepted to the petition on the ground, among others, that it failed to disclose any right or…