Burch v. McClendon

This is an election contest in which plaintiff-appellant, Fannie E. Burch, appeals the judgment of the lower court rejecting her suit contesting the outcome of the Democratic Primary Election held in the Twenty-first Judicial District of Louisiana, comprising the parishes of Livingston, St. Helena and Tangipahoa, in which defendant, Warren Cornish, was declared the Democratic nominee for the office of Judge, Division A of said judicial district.

By original and supplemental and amended petition, (the latter being filed on the day of trial of exceptions of no right and no cause of action filed…