Court Opinion

ID: 9688324
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 17:43:30.406175+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:37.511792
License: Public Domain

McCALEB, Chief Justice
(concurring).
While originally of the opinion that the Administrator herein was without right to appeal from a judgment in his favor, I now yield to the majority viewpoint inasmuch ■ as a statute of the State has been declared unconstitutional. See Petition of Sewerage & Water Bd., 248 La. 169, 177 So.2d 276 (1965).
’ • On the merits of the appeal I believe that the district court is vested with general original jurisdiction to hear' and determine this matter under Article VII, Section 35, of our Constitution .as Bowen is 1 seeking legal enforcement of an alleged civil right. However, 1 disagree with the application by the majority of principles and adjudications which do not and cannot control' the issue here presented, i, e., a matter of distinct court jurisdiction governed exclusively by our State Constitution. Moreover, I perceive no valid reason for the summary overruling of decisions of this Court which are clearly distinguishable and ' eminently sound.
I respectfully concur in the decree.