Carriere v. St. Landry Parish Police Jury

JiCOOKS, Judge.

The St. Landry Parish Police Jury appeals the trial court’s issuance of an Alternative Writ of Mandamus against it in favor of the Parish Coroner. The writ of mandamus directed the Police Jury to provide a $25,000.00 annual salary to the Coroner and to provide $96,000.00 to fund the Coroner’s annual budget for “necessary or unavoidable” expenses. The trial court’s judgment also mandated certain procedural mechanisms for accounting, reduction, and crediting of funds received by the Coroner. For reasons which follow, we affirm the judgment of the trial court ordering the Police…