Collin v. Knoblock

This is a controversy under the intrusion act for the office of parish judge of the parish of Lafourche, each of the contestants claiming to have been elected to that office at the general election held in November, 1872. Judgment was rendered in favor of Knoblock, and Collin has appealed.

*264Under the intrusion into office act, we do not find authority conferred upon the courts to go beyond an investigation of the titles set up by the contestants for the office in controversy. The time at which the law was enacted and the circumstances which required its enactment-show clearly that it…