Case Name: PORTER v. CONWAY, Secretary of State
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1934-12-05
Citations: 159 So. 725
Docket Number: No. 33147
Parties: PORTER v. CONWAY, Secretary of State.
Judges: O’NIELL, C. J., and ROGERS and ODOM, JJ., concur in the result on the ground that this is a moot case, and each of them hands down an opinion.
Reporter: Southern Reporter
Volume: 159
Pages: 725–745

Head Matter:
181 La. 487
PORTER v. CONWAY, Secretary of State.
No. 33147.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Dec. 5, 1934.
Gaston D. Porterie, Atty. Gen., and George M. Wallace and D. M. Ellison, both of Baton Rouge, for the State, applicant.
Joseph W. Carroll, L. E. Hall, and Edward Rightor, all of New Orleans, C. E. Hardin and T. A. Edwards, both of Dake Charles, and Vernon Porter and Paul G. Borron, both of Baton Rouge, for respondent.

Opinion:
The petition of the relator in the above entitled and numbered case having been duly considered,
It is ordered that a writ of certiorari issue herein, directing the Honorable W. Carruth Jones, judge of the Nineteenth judicial district court for the parish of East Baton Rouge, to transmit to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, on or before the 26th day of November, 1934, the record, or a certified copy of the record, of the proceedings complained of by the relator herein, to the end that the validity of said proceedings may be ascertained.
It is further ordered that the aforesaid judge of said court and the respondent,, Thomas F. Porter, shall show cause, in this court, on the date aforesaid, at 11 o'clock a. m., why the relief prayed for in the petition of the relator should not be granted.
It is further ordered that in the meantime and until the further orders of this court, the orders, writs, and judgments issued against E. A. Conway, secretary of state in said district court shall be stayed and suspended.
Granted at New Orleans, September 26, 1934.
H. F. BRUNOT,
J. R. LAND,
A. T. HIGGINS,
Associate Justices.