Police Jury v. Corporation of Mansura

Citations

• 107 La. 201

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>A resolution of a police jury, authorizing its president to employ counsel to enjoin a municipal corporation from selling intoxicating liquors during the year 1902, is held to be sufficient authority, without further action by the jury, for the president to institute suit and stand in judgment therein.</p> <p>If the people of a parish, by ballot, may vote liquor selling out of the parish, so that the prohibition is binding for twelve months on all the wards and cities and towns within the parish (and that is the law), such a vote taken throughout the parish every^ twelve months would continue prohibition in and throughout the parish indefinitely.</p> <p>It is only where a parish fails to act in the way of repetition of the edict of prohibition, within twelve months of its former election, or of the beginning of the prohibitive period, that a town or city can take action to emancipate itself from the restraint put upon it by the parochial election.</p> <p>Once a parish speaks for prohibition, its voice is paramount throughout Its limits, binding on all, citizens and municipalities alike, and continues so for twelve months, and, if at or near the close of the twelve months, it speaks again for prohibition, it silences any contrary voice which, mean while, may have been spoken in towns or cities within its limits.</p>