The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-05-28
A Case For Impeachment.

Communicated
We have had occasion this week to In.
vestiRate what we consider q case Of
gross and deliberate malfeasance in Of
fice, case unheard Of In the judicial
Affairs Of this parish; and on the bare
face Of the facts. we cannot understand
how the Judge has not suspended the
Official and ordered judicial investiga.
tion OF his official conduct.
We mean, by this, the abstracting and
carrying awayof papers and documents
that should have been in the Clerks Of.
flee after they had been fled, after the
Clerk Of Court A. v. Fournet, had accep
ted the bond 10 the case, instead of plac.
ing the documents, we mean the origi.
mails, In his Office where they should
have remained, and certified copies be
served as the law directs, the original
documents were distracted and taken
away from the Office, and we're only re-
turned ten days after, when it was too
late for the party injured to take an ap-
peal.
The facts Of the case as We have Oh.
tanned them are as follows:
On the % day of April Cab. Garde-
NAL entered suit against David Rees.
cOntesting his election as Sheriff. The
petition and citation were fled on thai
day
On the 20 day Of April an injunc.
ton was taken Oh the Secretary Of State
toprevent the PRONUNCIATION Of tie cleo.
ton OF David Rees by that official, and
the required bond was furnished on the
same day. The papers of the Injunction
we're sent to Baton Bouge and duly sprv
I'd on the Secretary of State.
Cab. Gardemal who IL the plai tiff in
this case left for Baton Rouge to attend
to his settlement md to his surpris-.
harmed that the injunction H. had at
en on the SECRETARY NJ State had ba-.,
dissolved anu tine prUmulgation Of the
election Ut Rees WIS made OH the 18th
day OF May. On learning this, Carrie.
NAL went to the Secreta, y OF States of.
ice and there he learned the fact.
Gardemal was then advised by bis at.
tOrney to come at once and take sus.
pensive appeal, but to his surprise and
Indignation when be came into the
Clerks Office and applied for the docu. |
ments to take the appeal, he was infor-
med by MIR. Vim. B. Eastin, the Chief
Deputy Clerk that he had no knowledge
Of the existence Of any such pspprs, that
they we're not filed in the Office. and ne
yer heard that they existed. This 10.
JURY at the Clerks Office. mind you.
vas on the 18th Of May, the day after
he PRONUNCIATION Of the election of
1ees. After search in the office by
sasttn for the documents. which should
rave been on file in that Office; for the
'etition to the Judge praying the disso-
utiOn OF the injunction was presented
N the 9TH OF May, the order was grant.
ID on the same day. and the bond, which
'as 6xed at $500 was signed and ac-
-pted tie same day. Was it not the
lain duty Of the Clerk of Court to i'm
nediately place the papers in the file
I that suit in his Officer
Had he any right to abstract and take
hem away from the Office, leaving not
no least trace Of even their existencep
Ihe papers that should have been filed
! tho Clerk office on the 9TH o. May:
hich we're served on the Secretary of
tate on the 9th, we're not fled in the
Jerks Office until the afternoon of the !
tn Of May, when 1t was too late for
..rdemal to take suspensive appeal.