Supreme Court of Louisiana January 15, 1870, No. 2494 (Davis v. Maxwell)

Taliaferro, J.

The plaintiff alleges that he was duly elected sheriff of the parish of Orleans, at the general election held on the seventeenth and eighteenth of April, 1868, but owing to the fraud, malpractices and chicanery used in the counting of the votes east, and in the returns and reports made of the election, his competitor, the defendant, was returned as elected, and that he was