State ex rel. Downes v. Towne

Wyr/r, J.

At the April elections of 1868, the relator, Richard Charles Downes, ivas elected parish judge of tho parish of Madison, and received his certificate of election, on first July, 1868, from R. C. Buchanan, then commanding the Fifth Military District. On fourteenth July, 1868, he received his commission from tho Governor of this State, and on the same day took the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution of 1868, and entered on the duties of his office.

On twenty-fourth April, 1869, the defendant, E. B. Towne. was appointed by the Governor and commissioned to tho samo office, then…