Lacoste v. Duffy

Roberts, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for mandamus, instituted in the District Court on the 24th of January, 1874, there tried, and the appeal therefrom filed in this court on the 8th of June, 1874. The object of the suit was to have determined whether James Dully, having been elected county treasurer in November, 1872, held the office two years from that time, or only one year, and until J. B. Lacoste was elected to the same office at the general election held on the 2d of December, 1873, the term of said office, as. prescribed by law, being two years, and the office having been created and…