Hudson v. Police Jury

Citations

• 107 La. 387

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. Taxpayers of a parish have the right to implead the Police Jury and call iu Question the legality or constitutionality of any act or ordinance of that body.</p> <p>2. Act No. 24 of 1870, which prohibits Police Juries from making appropriations for, or authorizing expenditures upon, public roads until provision for meeting the same shall have been made by laying a special tax on all the real and personal property in the parish, and which declares that payment for work performed or material furnished for constructing or repairing roads shall not be made from any other fund or funds of the parish, is distinctly modified, if not repealed, by Art. 291 of the Constitution of 1898, which authorizes Police Juries to set aside at least one mill of the annual' parish tax for roads and bridges.</p>