State v. Stich

This controversy arises over the selection of commissioners and clerks of election to serve at the election called by the Governor of the State of Louisiana to be held on April 15, 1947, for the election of Justice of the Supreme Court for the First Supreme Court District.

The Board of Supervisors of Elections for the Parish of Orleans and two of the individual members of that Board seek by mandamus to compel the Honorable Frank J. Stich, one of the judges of the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, to grant a suspensive appeal from a final judgment enjoining them from appointing…