Case ID: so2d_266/html/0710-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BARHAM, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

263 La. 1
    Patsy McDowell COOPER v. Frederick D. BROUSSARD et al.
    No. 52815.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Sept. 11, 1972.
   In re: Patsy McDowell Cooper applying for certiorari, or writ of review, to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, Parish of East Baton Rouge. 266 So.2d 549.

Application denied. There is no allegation to the effect that but for the alleged irregularities applicant would be entitled to enter a second primary. R.S. 18:364, subd. B. Therefore the petition does not state a cause of action.

BARHAM, J.,

concurs. The exception of no cause of action is good but both the trial court and the appellate court erred in sustaining the plea of prescription and we should so hold explicitly. The provision for instituting an election contest “within two days” after promulgation of the returns means within the two legal days which follow the day of the promulgation— not within 48 hours after the hour of promulgation. R.S. 18:364 repeatedly and pointedly makes distinctions between days and hours for the purpose of computing time lapses. No case holds to the contrary and if one did it would be erroneous and deserving of being overruled because of the express language of the statute. '