State v. Guidry

This is a mandamus suit wherein relator prays that alternative writs of mandamus issue herein directing the Honorable Z. J. Guidry, who was then Mayor of the Town of Ville Platte, and J. Emile Pucheu, Town Clerk, commanding them to perform the ministerial duties of their respective offices by signing pay vouchers in favor of Orise Chapman, relator herein, to pay his salary of One Hundred Thirty-five ($135.00) Dollars per month for a period of time commencing November 4, 1947 to January 4, 1948, or the total sum of Two Hundred Seventy ($270.00) Dollars, and monthly thereafter to issue to said…