Calcasieu Sanitation Service, Inc. v. City of Lake Charles

TATE, Judge.

This appeal concerns the effect of the annexation of adjacent territory by a city upon an exclusive garbage-collecting franchise granted to the plaintiff by another unit of local government which, prior to the annexation, was entitled to contract to provide garbage services to the annexed areas. The plaintiff seeks to have its franchise rights recognized as still valid in the annexed areas subsequent to the annexation.

The trial court sustained the defendants’ exceptions of no cause of action and dismissed this suit, and the plaintiff appeals.

The pleadings show that on March 1,…