State ex rel. George v. Tucker

The motion to dismiss has been waived.

This action was instituted under the provisions of the act of the Legislature (No. 156) of 1868, to test the right to the office of Recorder ■of Mortgages of the parish of Tangipahoa.

The parish was created by act of March 6,1869, which provides that within ten days after it should become a law, the Governor should appoint and commission for said parish a Recorder and certain other *140officials, and that the officers thus appointed and commissioned should continue in office until the election and qualification of their successors at the next general election…