McKnight v. Ragan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twelfth Judicial District Court, parish of Grant. Barbin, J. The dissolution of the plaintiff’s injunction on the ground that one claiming to be an officer could not be enjoined from drawing the salary because salaries of officers could not be seized, is a legal absurdity, there being no analogy between the two.
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APPEAL from the Twelfth Judicial District Court, parish of Grant. Barbin, J. The dissolution of the plaintiff’s injunction on the ground that one claiming to be an officer could not be enjoined from drawing the salary because salaries of officers could not be seized, is a legal absurdity, there being no analogy between the two. The refusal of the sheriff to permit the plaintiff and his attorney to see the commissioner’s returns, his failure to file a copy in the clerk’s office, his refusal to permit any one within the bar to witness the tabulation made, the failure to enclose copies of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Levy, J.
This is a contest for the office of parish judge of the parish of Grant, and for the second time is before this Court on appeal from judgment rendered on a verdict of jury in favor of defendant. On the first appeal the case was remanded to the court a qua for the reasons that the record did not contain the original tally sheets required to be deposited with the Secretary of State, which the contestant charged had been forged or altered, and no proof of their non-existence had been made, which was necessary in order to the admission of…
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