Maggiore v. Lochbaum
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson; Prentice E. Edrington, Judge. Election contest by Angelo Maggiore against E. S. Lochbaum. Exception of prescription maintained, and suit dismissed, and, on plaintiff’s appeal, judgment reversed and remanded by the Court of Appeal for trial on the merits; and from an order maintaining a peremptory exception of no cause of action and dismissing the suit, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMonroe, C. J.
Plaintiff alleges that he was a candidate for the nomination to the office of marshal of the town of Kenner, in the Democratic primary election held in that *428town on March 14, 1916, and that according to the returns, as promulgated by the Democratic municipal committee, he received 57 and his opponent 59 votes, but that, by reason of the facts that certain legally qualified electors, whom he names and who would have voted for him, were denied the right to vote, and certain persons, who were not entitled to vote, were allowed to do so, and voted for the defendant, and because of certain other…
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