Barbe v. City of Lake Charles

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

On November 8, 1946, the city council of the City of Lake Charles adopted Ordinance 701, Commission Series, providing for the enlargement of the corporate limits of that city under the provisions of Act No. 315 of 1946. Within the 30 days 'before the ordinance became effective under the act, four separate suits contesting the extension were filed by residents of that city or of the territory proposed to be annexed thereto. Pursuant to Section 7 of the act, the district judge ordered these suits consolidated and tried as one suit. After trial on the merits there was judgment…