STATE EX REL. LE BLANC v. DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Nos. 42804, 42805.

86 So.2d 192 (1956)

229 La. 556

STATE ex rel. Fred S. LE BLANC v. DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE et al. and STATE ex rel. Dave L. PEARCE v. DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 20, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred S. LeBlanc, Atty. Gen., pro se and A. Leon Hebert, Ashton L. Stewart, Baton Rouge, for relators.

Rufus D. Hayes, Jack P. F. Gremillion, Baton Rouge, Camille F. Gravel, Jr., Alexandria, Edmund M. Reggie, Crowley, G. Dupre Litton, N. Cleburn Dalton, William C. Bradley, Baton Rouge, for respondents.


SIMON, Justice.

Relators, Fred S. LeBlanc, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, and Dave L. Pearce, Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, seeking re-election to their respective offices, qualified for nomination by the Democratic Party in the gubernatorial primary election held throughout the State of Louisiana on January 17, 1956, for which offices neither candidate had received a majority of the votes cast, and when the Democratic State Central Committee...

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