Laycock v. City of Baton Rouge
Supreme Court of Louisiana
' * PPE AL from the Seventeenth District Court, Parish of East Baton il Rouge. Sherburne, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Bermudez, C. J.
The plaintiff seeks to hold the City' of Baton Rouge liable for a supply of gas during stated periods. .
*476To this end he instituted three suits: one in the name of the stockholders of the Gas Co., (of whom he was one) as holders of warrants issued by the City.for the gas supplied, and two others, in his own ñamó, also as warrant holder.
After an exception to the first suit, requiring the disclosure of the, names of the stockholders which he claimed to represent, the plaintiff, filed a supplemental petition, alleging himself the owner of the…
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