The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-10-28
BELLEVUE, La,
THURSDAY :::::::::::"::ocToBER %, 1880.
The B0SSIER PARISH SEAT.
Me Supreme Court Settles the vexed
auestion-The Opinion Rendered
by Judge Levy.

4 Below we publish the decision rem
j dered in the Supreme Court by AS
] sociate Justice WIN. M. Levy, on
j Thursday, from which it will be seen
1 that the recent act of the Legisla.
! ture providing for the removal Of
] parish seats and changing parish
4 lines is declared to be unconstitu.
ional and all the proceedings had
] boxing to the removal of the parish
seat of BOssier parish annulled.-
] This decision will be read with inter.
] eat not only by the citizens of that
parish who are directly and person
ally interested in the matter, but BY
4 the public at large, inasmuch as it
strikes with nullity a general law
passed by the Legislature. We have
beard the decision highly compli-
ueuted by leading members of our
bar as a most able, clear and lucid
exposition of the constitutional
question involved. Our Bossier
friends will have to await future leg
Hlation before the question of the
removal of the parish scat from
Bellevue can again be acted upon:
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Shreyeport-E. r. Moore ct al VS..
Police Jury of Bossier Parish ct
als-Appeal from the District
Court, Parish of Bossier.
The plaintiffs, E. r. Moore ct al,
thought suit to annul an election
held in the parish of Bossior, on the
I'd Of July, 1880, under the provis.
nous OF an act of the General Assem-
BY, No. 81, approved March 10th,
1850, entitled can Act prescribing
'he manner of changing Parish lines
and removing Parish Seats" and for
INJUNCTION against said Police Jury
prohibiting the holding of a second
election ordered by that body for the
purpose of deciding as to the place
(Which the removal of the Parish
eat OF said Parish should be made.
III their petition plaintiffs alleged
mat the pretended" election held on
'ae I'D OF July, 1880, was null and
sold for the reason that it was not
aeid In conformity with Act No. 81,
approved March 10th, 1880, and was
% violation of Article $50 of the
constitution of the State.n They
lurther allege, that said Police jury
Of Bossier Parish had no right to
0uer SAID election of 22d of July,
loN, Tor the reason that QUE third
" the property taxpayers of said
'arlsh, at the time said election was
Ofuered, could not have been known.
sue assessment for the year 1880
lad not been made and no registra-
wv OF voters had been made as re.
salred By the general election laws
'ue State; further, that by the
slns Of said Act No. 81, and the
wei the police jury, Bellevue was
'4'lsled to be and was voted for at
A'a election of 22d July, and re-
a''eo and counted by said police
~ loo4 votes, being the highest
lumber OF votes cast for any of the |
p'aces voted for as to which the par |
- seat should be removed, not
Outstanding which by the order for |
'a0 second election Bellevue was ex-
''''cu as one of the places to be |
''eu iOr at such second election, to |
! su'cn right Bellevue was entitled. |
.4's ailege that irreparable injury |
'u'o accrue to them by removal of
: parish seat from Bellevue and
~ Tue proceedings of the police
u the premises are illegal aud
s'ustitutlOnal. The Injunction
WV ior was issued.
e'ehdants filed an exception in