McFerrin v. Police Jury of Sabine Parish

FRUGÉ, Judge.

This is a suit to set aside and have declared null and void a local option election held in Ward 5, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, in which is included a portion of the municipality of Zwolle, Louisiana. Petitions complying with the provisions of LSA-R.S. 26:581 et seq., were circulated in Ward 5, addressed to the Police Jury of Sabine Parish, to call a local option election in Ward 5. These petitions were filed with the Sabine Parish Registrar of Voters, and she certified that the petitions, so circulated, contained the names of more than twenty-five percent of the registered voters…