Hunter v. Laurent

Plaintiff! was a resident of the parish of St. John the Baptist, and pastor of a colored church congregation therein, and defendant was a deputy sheriff in the same parish.

The defendant died after the filing 'of this suit, but before citation was served upon him, and his widow and heirs have been made parties defendant in his stead.

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The testimony is lengthy and rambling, and covers much of the political history of said parish for some 30 odd years before 1914, in the beginning of which plaintiff seems to have been of some political influence in the parish, and towards the end of which…