Hodge v. Democratic Executive Committee

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Edward L. Hodge, as a candidate for alderman of the City of Gretna in the first Democratic primary election, instituted this mandamus suit against the defendants, the Democratic Executive Committee1 of the City of Gretna, et al., endeavoring to have himself certified as a candidate in the second primary election and to delete the name of Louis A. Le-Boeuf, Jr., as the Democratic nominee for alderman, asserting that the defendants improperly computed the total number of votes cast in the first primary by deducting therefrom 185 votes and then as a result thereof…