James v. City of Jennings

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal from an order sustaining defendant’s motion for judgment and alternative motion for new trial on one count and from the court’s order directing a verdict for defendant on' another count. Plaintiffs’ cause of action was based upon the denial by the city of an occupancy permit. The count on which a verdict was directed alleged racial discrimination in the refusal to issue the permit. The count submitted to the jury asserted denial of a property right because the denial was arbitrary and capricious. The petition premised recovery on Article I, Secs. 2 and…