Champagne v. Parish Democratic Executive Committee for Parish of St. John the Baptist.

JANVIER, Judge.

Paul J. Champagne seeks to qualify as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the office of member of the Police Jury for the First Ward of the Parish of St. John the Baptist. He filed notice of his intention with the Parish Executive Committee and that Committee sustained a protest based on the charge that he had not signed the poll registration book for the year 1939.

From a judgment reversing the action of the Committee, which held him to be not qualified, the Committee has appealed to this court, the amount in dispute being conceded to be the total emoluments of the…