Caswell v. Hoft

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff John J. Caswell, individually as a registered Democrat and in his official capacity as Chairman of the Orleans Parish Democratic Executive Committee, joined by Peter W. Murtes, Salvador Anzelmo, and Rodney A. Buras, as Democratic nominees for the Louisiana House of Representatives — the former from the Thirteenth Ward and the latter from the Seventh — instituted these proceedings seeking to have declared “ineligible to participate as Republican nominees in the General Election to be held April 19, 1960,” some twenty named defendants, and from a judgment…