BARDWELL v. PARISH COUNCIL

No. 39710.

44 So.2d 107 (1949)

216 La. 537

BARDWELL et al. v. PARISH COUNCIL OF PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 30, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanders R. Cazedessus, Emile N. Weber, Victor A. Sachse, Baton Rouge, for defendants and intervenors-appellants.

Fred G. Benton, George Mathews, Edward Donald Moseley, Albritton, Ware, Litton & West, Watson, Blanche, Fridge, Wilson & Posner, Brumfield, Hebert & Rush, Daggett & Daggett, Sanders, Miller, Downing & Rubin, Jess Johnson, Byron Kantrow, Roland Kizer, J. Burton LeBlanc, Jr., Clint Pierson, A. J. Spedale, Baton Rouge, for plaintiffs and appellees.


McCALEB, Justice.

Acting under authority of section 3(a) of Article 14 of the Constitution (added by Act No. 389 of 1946 which was approved on November 5, 1946), the people of the Parish of East Baton Rouge adopted a plan of government proposed by a "City-Parish Charter Commission" created under the constitutional amendment. The validity of this "plan of government" was sustanied by this court in State v. City of Baton Rouge, 215 La. 315

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