State ex rel. McMahon v. City of New Orleans

Statement of ti-ie Case.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Monroe, J.

Relator, having been elected a member of the city council of New Orleans, was expelled from that body, and he prays to be restored to membership by means of a writ of mandamus. The council and its members, for cause why the alternative writ should not be made peremptory, show, that, by section 12 of the city charter, the council is authorized to “expel any of its members by a two-thirds vote of all members elected to such council, five days notice and an opportunity of being heard in his defense having previously been…