State Ex Rel. Garland v. Dietlein

The Judges of the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, acting under Const. 1921, art. 7, § 25, p. 45, have certified to this court the following Question:

“In a municipality of this state, which has never changed its status according to the requirement of Act 136 of 1898, or Act 59 of 1902, and has never been classified under said acts as a city having a population of 5,000 or more; and where it appears under a federal census that it has a population less than 5,000, but it also appears in a private census subsequently taken under an ordinance of the municipality that it has a population exceeding…