Lemoine v. Police Jury of Avoyelles Parish
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fourteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Avoyelles; A. J. Lafargue, Judge. Action by Ignatius B. Lemoine against the Police Jury of Avoyelles Parish. From judgment for defendant, plaintiff appealed to the Court of Appeal, which transfers the case to the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
This ease was transferred to this court by the Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit. As the case was decided by the district judge in favor of the defendant on the theory that Act No. 37 of 1890, on *333which plaintiff relies, is unconstitutional, this court has jurisdiction. Constitutions of 1898 and 1913, Art. 85.
Plaintiff, clerk of the Fourteenth judicial district court, sued the defendant for $530.-90 for issuing 1,773 certificates of attendance to jurors and witnesses.
This demand was made pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 37 of 1890, which made It the duty of clerks of district courts,…
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