State ex rel. Staes v. Gastinel

At the municipal election, on 12th March, 1866, of the votes cast for Recorder of the Second District of New Orleans, Arthur Gastinel, the defendant, received'784, Eugene Staes, the relator, 619, and Emile Wiltz 168, making a total of 1471. On the 19th of the same month, Gastinel was commissioned by the Governor as Recorder and Justice of the Peace ; on the next day he took the oath of office prescribed by the constitution, and, on 31st same month, Eugene Staes obtained a writ of quo warranto from the Sixth District Court of New Orleans, directed to' said Gastinel, to show cause why he should…