State ex rel. Langlois v. Lancaster

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Relators instituted this proceeding under the intrusion into office act, LSA-RS 42:76 et seq., alleging that relator Lionel J. Langlois was elected mayor and the relators Rene Lejeune, Charles K. Jordan, Whitney J. Langlois, and Seitz Bordelon were duly elected councilmen or members of the Board of Aldermen of the Town of New Roads, Louisiana, at an election held on June 14, 1949; that the returns thereof were promulgated, that commissions were issued to them for their respective offices by the Governor dated August 25, 1949, and that they took their respective oaths of…