Gooding v. St. John the Baptist Parish Police Jury

BOUTALL, Judge.

This matter comes before us on an exception of no cause of action that was maintained by the trial court. The scope of our inquiry is whether a cause of action is stated upon the face of the petition and the attachments to the petition. An exception of no cause of action is designed to test the sufficiency of the petition and all well pleaded facts in the petition are to be considered as true. Parr v. D. H. Holmes Co. Ltd., La.App., 311 So.2d 463 (1975); Borenstein v. Joseph Fein Caterers, La.App., 308 So.2d 396 (1975).

The petition alleges that the plaintiff owns a certain…