Pearce v. Stanford

TATE, Justice.

The plaintiff Commissioner of Agriculture appeals from a declaratory judgment holding to be unconstitutional a regulation of State Market Commission pertaining to sweet potatoes. We have previously denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss this appeal. 259 La. 989, 254 So.2d 270 (1971).

The record filed in this court includes the plaintiff’s petition, the defendant’s exception pleading res judicata (founded on a prior suit between the parties, local docket number 23,635) ,1 the defendant’s answer and reconventional demand, the plaintiff’s exception to the reconventional demand,…