BAHRY v. WEST ASCENSION CONSOL DRAINAGE DIST.

No. 40092.

51 So.2d 614 (1951)

218 La. 1028

BAHRY et al. v. WEST ASCENSION CONSOL. DRAINAGE DIST.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied March 19, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Lemann, Glynn A. Long, F. A. Blanchard and C. A. Blanchard, Donaldsonville, Wisdom & Stone, John Minor Wisdom, New Orleans, for appellants.

A. L. Talbot, Dist. Atty., Napoleonville, George R. Blum, Asst. Dist. Atty., Donaldsonville, Sigur Martin and Martin, Himel, Hinckley & Morel, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.


McCALEB, Justice.

Proceeding under the authority of Section 14(n) of Article 14 of the Constitution, plaintiffs, six resident taxpayers of the City of Donaldsonville, are contesting the legality of an election held on May 16, 1950, by which the property owning voters of West Ascension Consolidated Drainage District empowered the Police Jury, as the governing body of the district, to construct a gravity drainage system and issue bonds in the sum of $95,000, said bonds...

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