Holland v. Police Jury of Vernon Parish

DORÉ, Judge.

The plaintiffs, Martha Holland and James R. Cobb, seek to annul and have declared unconstitutional an ordinance of the Police Jury of Vernon Parish, adopted pursuant to a local option election held in and for the unincorporated portion of the Parish, which prohibited and made illegal the sale of alcoholic beverages in Ward 1 of Vernon Parish, with the Town of Leesville and the Village of New Llano being excepted. The ■case comes up on appeal from a judgment of the district court sustaining defendants’ ■exceptions of no right of action and no cause of action.

In their lengthy…