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Caption: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942)
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64 sary the assertion C P protect I n of the rights M and Intei of the State * * * shall ex rciae supervi n ov< r several District Attorneys throughout the State and perf rm all othei duties im] 1 by law.'* Tl j H: hway Commission employed its own counsel and the A* orney General brou bt an injunction suit to i strain the practice, claiming that he was the sole legal supervis r of the Commission and that if there be any statute in Louisiana authorizing the Commission to employ its own counsel, said statute was unconstitutional. In denying this contention of the Attorney General and referring to the constitutional provision defining his duty and power, the Slip] me ( mrt of Louisiana said on page 24S: Under this provision it i tie duty of the Attorney General and his assistants t prosecute and defend all suits or other legal proceedir s to which the state is a party, and to have chai of all legal matters in which the state, as a distinct entity, apart from other entities or corporate agencies it may create, has an inter* :. II was nc intended that the word, interest.' used in this B tion. should be received or interpreted C in its broadest sense, in connection with the interests, possessed by the state. Such an interpretation would make the accomplishment of the duties of the Attorney General and hi assistants next to impossible it not impossible. Therel so far as relates to the Constitution, that instrument, with reference to the duties he Attorney Genei 1 and his assistants, has contim i. by impli ition. the duties, there demanded to fa I nd red to those interests. po88< sed b\ the sta \ as a distin t entity, and has 1 t it to tin 1 e&risla < U] m from tim EftheLouisi ia highway c nunission is a dia ict legal entity from the state, then there would
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