Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Ball v. Cain

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided June 15, 1900No. 13,609PublishedCited by 3 opinions

APPEAL from the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District, Parish of East Feliciana — Kilbourne, J.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the' court was delivered by

Blanchard, J.

An election for Mayor of the town of Clinton in the Parish of East Feliciana was held, by direction of law, on the 4th day of June, 1,900.

There were two candidates — one the .relator, O. W. Ball; the other the respondent, W. A. Cain.

The relator received forty-seven votes; respondent forty-one votes.

Relator was declared duly elected Mayor for the term of one year, a commission as such issued to him and he qualified thereunder according to law.

The respondent, Cain, was the incumbent Mayor — he ‘having been elected to that office in June,…