State Ex Rel. Cottonport Bank v. Avoyelles Parish Police Jury

PONDER, Justice.

The relator, the Cottonport Bank, instituted mandamus proceedings against the respondent, the Police Jury of the Parish of Avoyelles, seeking to compel the police jury and its treasurer to deposit monthly with the relator one-tenth of all funds collected and to be collected for the retirement of a road bond issue created by the police jury in 1919 until the bonds are retired and the levy and collection of the taxes expire.

The Union Bank of the Parish of Avoyelles intervened, claiming that the bonds issued in 1919 were absorbed, exchanged, substituted and liquidated by a…