FITZGERALD v. DAVIS

No. 1262.

160 So.2d 345 (1964)

Peter L. FITZGERALD v. Jimmie H. DAVIS, Individually and as Governor of the State of Louisiana, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

February 3, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duke & Porterie, Louis B. Porterie, New Orleans, for plaintiff and appellant.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., State of Louisiana, Michael E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Louisiana, Julian B. Humphrey, New Orleans, for defendants and appellees.

Before McBRIDE, REGAN and SAMUEL, JJ.


REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Peter Fitzgerald, instituted this suit to be reinstated as a New Orleans-Baton Rouge Steamship pilot, alleging that his Commission had been wrongfully revoked by Governor Jimmie H. Davis on December 12, 1960, after the Board of Commissioners of the New Orleans-Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots Commission had illegally recommended the revocation thereof without affording him a hearing, contrary to the statutory law of this state. In addition thereto...

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