State Ex Rel. Cavanaugh v. Vernon Parish Police Jury

LAND, Justice.

The relator, A. B. Cavanaugh, district attorney, in his official capacity and in clividually, brought suit in the Eleventh district court for the parish of Vernon against the police jury of that parish, asking that alternative writs of mandamus be directed to the police jury and its individual members, and to W. W. Lee, registrar of voters, ordering the police jury and its individual members to refer local option petitions filed with the police jury on September 8, 1936, to W. W. Lee, registrar of voters, for certification, and directing him to check and certify to the petitions…