McFarlain v. Town of Jennings

The .opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The town of Jennings adopted an ordinance relating to the running at large of stock within; the town. y\Te are informed by the record .that after it' had been adopted, the Mayor had a census of the -town taken by his daughter,; and the Council afterward ordained a census to be- taken by- a census taker regularly appointed. The census made by the Mayor’s daughter1 shows that the population of Jennings was two thousand and four. The census taken a short time afterward by the census taker of the Council shows that two- thousand and thirty…