Doss v. Board of Com'rs of Mermentau Levee Dist.

Citations

• 117 La. 450
• 41 So. 720
• 1906 La. LEXIS 720

Syllabus

<p>Levees — Judicial Notice — Repeal of Statute — Effect—Abatement of Suit — Constitutional Law.</p> <p>The General Assembly, by Act No. 79, p. 192, of the year 1904, sought to create a new levee district, viz., the Mermentau levee district.</p> <p>The court takes judicial notice of the public laws of the state.</p> <p>By the repeal the statute attacked on the ground of unconstitutionality has passed out of existence.</p> <p>Nothing of it remains. It was a statute.</p> <p>The suit abates, and no judgment can be rendered therein.</p> <p>The court will not pass upon the constitutionality vel non of a statute that has been repealed.</p> <p>Each of the parties pays his own costs. In re Lambert, 39 South. 447, 115 La. 469; Interdiction of Jones (La.) 41 South. 431, ante, p. 105..</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — Eor cases in point, see vol. 20, Cent. Dig. Evidence, § 37; vol. 44, Cent. Dig. Statutes, §§ 371-373.]</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>