Staes v. Gastinel

This is a contested election case, in which the plaintiff has appealed from a judgment sustaining exceptions to his petition. Both parties were candidates for the office of Recorder of the Second District of New Orleans at the election held on the seventeenth and eighteenth of April, 1808, and the plaintiff alleges that he was legally elected to-said office and that the majority of votes apparently received by his opponent was the result of frauds committed to his prejudice, which he details at length in his original and supplemental petitions. Several grounds of exception were filed at…