Case Name: Police Jury of the Parish of Plaquemines vs. James Foulhouze et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1878-01
Citations: 30 La. Ann. 64
Docket Number: No. 6461
Parties: Police Jury of the Parish of Plaquemines vs. James Foulhouze et al.
Judges: Spencer, J.
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 30
Pages: 64–67

Head Matter:
No. 6461.
Police Jury of the Parish of Plaquemines vs. James Foulhouze et al.
The right to an office will not be considered on any rule taken in this court.
If it appears from a scrutiny of all the provisions of an act of donation inter vivos that it was the real intention of the donor, and of the donees, that the land conveyed by the act should be dedicated' to public use, such land will be held as thus dedicated.
Property dedicated to public use is not liable to seizure and sale.
Property held by a municipal corporation in trust for public uses can not be alienated by the corporation, nor subjected to seizure and sale by any of its creditors.
Where a certain tract of land has been dedicated to public use — the whole of it remains thus dedicated, although only a part has been actually put to public use. Nor is this dedication at all impaired because a part of the land has been temporarily leased to private individuals.
APPEAL from the Second Judicial District Court, parish of Plaque-mines. Pardee, J.
B. T. Beauregard, District Attorney pro tem., and Henry Chiapella for plaintiff and appellee.
E. Howard McCaleb for defendants.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered on the rule by
Manning, C. J.,
and on the merits by
Spencer, J.
Mr. B. T. Beauregard applied to this Court to be recognized as District Attorney pro tempore of Plaquemines Parish, and exhibited a commission therefor. The order was made, though there was no occasion for either the application or the order. Shortly thereafter he filed a motion in this cause, and thereupon T. A. Elanagan took a rule upon him to shew cause why this order of recognition should not be rescinded, this relator alleging that he is the legal District Attorney pro tem. oí that parish.
This has the appearance of an attempt to determine the contestation for an office under the guise of this rule to rescind an order. We shall take no action in the case until it has been determined, judicially or otherwise, who is the person to represent the parish in this suit.
We shall dismiss the rule, and rescind the order of recognition, thus restoring all parties to the status quo and
It is accordingly so ordered.