State Ex Rel. Cavanaugh v. Police Jury

OTT, Judge.

The plaintiff, in his capacity as district attorney of the Eleventh Judicial District and in his capacity as a citizen of Vernon Parish, seeks, by mandamus, to compel the police jury of said parish, and the individual members thereof, to refer certain local option petitions presented to it on September 8, 1936, to the Registrar of Voters to ascertain the number of qualified voters thereon, and to compel the said registrar to check and certify the names on said petitions, and if said petitions contain the signatures of 25 per cent, of the qualified electors of said parish, that the…