DORE v. TUGWELL

Nos. 42426, 42427.

84 So.2d 199 (1955)

228 La. 807

Mrs. Emma Lou Joffrion DORE v. A. P. TUGWELL, Treasurer of the State of Louisiana et al. Mrs. Lettie Horn BURGESS v. Allison R. KOLB, Auditor of the State of Louisiana et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied December 12, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred S. LeBlanc, Atty. Gen., W. C. Perrault, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Carroll Buck, Second Asst. Atty. Gen., Percy J. Landry, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendants-appellants.

Frank S. Craig, Jr., White & May, Benton & Moseley, Baton Rouge, for plaintiffs-appellees.


McCALEB, Justice.

The widows of two judges are seeking in these proceedings the issuance of writs of mandamus ordering the State Auditor and State Treasurer to approve their applications for, and to pay to each of them, a widow's pension to which they assert they are entitled under the provisions of Act 697 of 1954, R.S. 13:5.

Judge Hugo Dore died on April 28, 1953, at the age of 63. At that time, he was Senior Judge of the Court of Appeal, First Circuit,...

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