State ex rel. Dobbins v. McDermott

Relator seeks to prohibit the court below from interfering with him in certifying to the secretary of state the results of an election for representative in the lower house of the Legislature held in the recent primary of January 15, 1924.

There were two offices to be filled from the Third ward of the city of New Orleans, and 11 candidates participated in the first race. No one was nominated, and the committee, to whom the returns were made under the law, took the view that only the three highest should be permitted to enter the second contest to be held on February 19th. Whereupon, the fourth…