Chisholm v. Hinson

This appeal is from a judgment deciding a primary election contest. The plaintiff, the defendant and another were candidates for the position of member of the School Board of Directors of the Parish of Vernon at the general primary election held on September 14, 1926. Neither one of them secured a majority of the votes cast at that election, and the plaintiff and defendant, having received the highest number of votes, were relegated to a second primary held on the 19th of October following. At the second primary, defendant, having been recognized as the candidate with a majority of the votes…