Oliphant v. Town of Lake Providence

FOURNET, Justice.

The judges of the Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit of Louisiana, availing themselves of the provisions of Section 25 of Article 7 of the Constitution of 1921, have submitted for our instruction a question of law which arises in the above entitled case pending before them on rehearing. In their original decree, they had affirmed the judgment of the lower court in favor of the plaintiff.

The facts of the case as certified to us, and accepted by both plaintiff and defendant, are as follows:

“The town of Lake Providence is a municipal corporation chartered under the laws of…