State ex rel. Segura v. Debaillon

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

Segura and Wakefield were candidates for tlie clerkship of the District Court for Iberia at tlie election of last spring. Wakefield was returned as elected and was commissioned on May 22d. On the 10th of that mouth Segura had filed suit contesting the election of Wakefield on sundry grounds therein set forth, and on the ]4th he filed a supplemental petition alleging that he feared Wakefield would take possession of the office and its records and emoluments, to prevent which he prayed and obtained an injunction forbidding those acts. The writ…