The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-08
. DRAINAGE SUIT DECIDED,
Judge Leche Upholds Validity Of
Special Tax Election in New
River District, Wherein Bonds to
Amount of s175,ooc Were Voted
Majority Reduced to One.

Amount of $4,000 Were Voted
Majority Reduced to One.
! AS briefly noted in last week,
Chief, Judge Paul Leche on Nav q
handed down his decision in the sui
of w. J. Ficklen ct ais. versus the
| Board of Commissioners of the New
River Drainage District, upholdins
the validity of the election held If
the seventh and eighth wards of AS
cension parish Aug. 1, 1911, where
in bonds to the amount of S175 1O(
were voted for drainage purposes
payable in forty years by the levy
of an acreage tax of eleven cents
per acre and an ad valorem tax OF
five mills on the dollar.
Plaintiffs in their petition alleged
that a number of qualified voters
were illegally prevented from voting
by the commissioners of election
that a number of voters who
We're not qualified We're allowed to
vote in favor of the tax, and that
those who were prevented from vot-
ing would have voted against the
lax. They then prayed that the lille.
sal ballots cast in favor of the tax
be rejected; that the legal votes of
fe1ed against the tax and illegally
refused by the commissioners be or
dered received and counted; that
all the votes be ordered recounted
under the direction of the court. and
! that the true and legal result of
| said election be declared to have
been against the levy of said spe-
cial tax. They further prayed that
the proclamation calling said special
election be declared null and void,
and that said special election and
PRONUNCIATION of result be adjudged
invalid and of no effect.
In passing upon the propositions
submitted the first to be disposed of
by the court was that the prayers
CT the petition We're inconsistent,
in as much as they first asked that
after recounting the ballots it be
decreed that the election was car
ried against the tax and propositions,
and then, but not in the alternative,
that the election be declared null and
void. The court held that these
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