Police Jury v. M'Donogh
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeat, from the court of the parish and city „ OI eW-Uf leans. The plaintiffs claimed from the defendant four thousand and odd dollars, paid out of the parish treasury to planters ordered to work on ,v . levee, in the year 1815. There was judgment against him, and he appealed. The plaintiffs were not authorized to sue, as a corporation, till the act of the 22d of February, 1817, upwards of two years after the cause of action in the present case occurred.
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Appeat, from the court of the parish and city „ OI eW-Uf leans. The plaintiffs claimed from the defendant four thousand and odd dollars, paid out of the parish treasury to planters ordered to work on ,v . levee, in the year 1815. There was judgment against him, and he appealed. The plaintiffs were not authorized to sue, as a corporation, till the act of the 22d of February, 1817, upwards of two years after the cause of action in the present case occurred. The law cannot have a ⅛ , retrospective effect: it may authorize them to sue, ^ J ' whenever the cause of action 'is posterior thereto.. A…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
The police jury brought this action, it* *16their corporate capacity, to recover from the def fendant, the sum of fe¡99 dollars, paid by them to several inhabitants of the parish, for work and labour done in making a levee on the land of the defendant, who resists their claim on every ground that could be imagined, in a laborious and ingenious defence.
The answer contains a peremptory exception to the sufficiency of the petition, in law, to authorize a recovery and a general denial.
During the trial of the cause, in the parish Court} eight bills of exceptions were taken by the defendant’s counsel…
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