Case Name: State ex rel. the Attorney General and Thomas Carey vs. John Barrow
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1877-04
Citations: 29 La. Ann. 243
Docket Number: No. 6349
Parties: State ex rel. the Attorney General and Thomas Carey vs. John Barrow.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 29
Pages: 243–245

Head Matter:
No. 6349.
State ex rel. the Attorney General and Thomas Carey vs. John Barrow.
Tho, Governor lias discretionary p.ower to .remove a tax collector, and appoint liis successor. In the absence of the Governor from the State the Lieutenant Governor has a similar power.
J^PPEAL from the Superior District Court, parish of Orleans. Lynch,
A. P. Field, Attorney General, and Cotton £ Levy, for relator and appellant.
Charle* S. Bice, for defendant.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wyly, J.
In this proceeding under the intrusion act for the office of tax collector of the Third District of Now Orleans there was judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs appeal.
Thomas P. Carey was appointed to said office on the eighteenth of January, 1876. On the tenth of May defendant was appointed (vice Carey, removed,) by the Lieutenant Governor, acting as Governor in the •absence of the Governor from the State.
i The question as to the authority of the Governor to remove a tax collector and appoint his successor is no longer an open one. 25 An. 119; 25 An. 396; 26 An. 537.
In the absence of the Governor from the State in this instance the Lieutenant Governor could discharge the duties of the office of Governor. Constitution, article 53.
It is unnecessary to examine the hills of exceptions to the exclusion of evidence at the trial, because if all the testimony, the rejection of which is complained of, were adduced it would not alter the result.
Judgment affirmed.