STATE EX REL. LANGRIDGE v. HARRIS

No. 330.

138 So.2d 197 (1962)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Frank H. LANGRIDGE, District Attorney for the 24th Judicial District, v. Michael A. HARRIS et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 12, 1962.

Certiorari Denied April 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert I. Broussard, John E. Fleury, Robert D. Edwards, H. Charles Gaudin, Gretna and George M. Wallace, Baton Rouge, for relator-appellant.

Nathan Greenberg, Gretna, for defendants-appellees; Foley, Cox & Judell, New Orleans, of counsel.

Before YARRUT, JOHNSON and LUTHER E. HALL, JJ.


HALL, J., pro tem.

On June 16, 1959, the Honorable Lether E. Frazer, then acting Governor of the State of Louisiana, issued his proclamation incorporating two communities situated in the Eleventh Ward of the Parish of Jefferson known as Grand Isle and Cheniere Caminada into the "Town of Grand Isle".

This action of the Governor was taken by virtue of the authority in him vested by LSA-R.S. 33:52 which reads as follows:

"Whenever two-thirds of the electors...

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