Case ID: la_141/html/0885-01.html
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Author: {"author": "PRO YO STY, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(75 South. 811)
    No. 22580.
    STATE ex rel. GAUTIER v. BERTHELOT, Chairman, et al.
    (June 11, 1917.
    Rehearing Denied June 30, 1917.)
    
      (Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
    
    Appeal and Error <&wkey;781(4) — Dismissal — Effect of Lapse of Time.
    In a mandamus suit to compel a party committee to declare plaintiff the duly qualified candidate at an election, an appeal by the relator from an adverse decision will be dismissed where the election has taken place; as no relief can be extended to the relator.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Appeal and Error, Cent. Dig. § 3122.]
    Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson; John E. Fleury, Judge.
    Mandamus by the State, on the relation of II. H. Gautier, against Paul Berthelot, Chairman of the Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Committee, and others.
    From a judgment for defendants, the relator appeals. Appeal dismissed.
    E. A. O’Sullivan, of New Orleans, for appellant. O. A. Buchler, of Gretna, for appellees.
   PRO YO STY, J.

This is a mandamus suit to compel the chairman and members of the Democratic judicial committee of the Twenty-Eighth judicial district of this state to declare the plaintiff a duly qualified candidate at a primary election to be held on the 12th of April, 1917, to nominate the candidate of the said party at an election to be held on the 24th day of the same month. The relator has appealed from an adverse decision of his suit. The appeal is suspensive. But we do not see what relief can be extended to relator, since the election of April 24th has now taken place; and there is no longer any election at which the relator could be a candidate. The appeal must therefore be dismissed.

Apipeal dismissed.