Case Name: ESTOPINAL v. SPICUZZA et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1908-06-22
Citations: 121 La. 877
Docket Number: No. 17,009
Parties: ESTOPINAL v. SPICUZZA et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 121
Pages: 878–878

Head Matter:
(46 South. 906.)
No. 17,009.
ESTOPINAL v. SPICUZZA et al.
(June 22, 1908.)
Elections — Qualifications of Voters — Residence.
A person who has a business office in New Orleans and none in Plaquemines, who has never lived in Plaquemines, and who has a home in New Orleans and none in Plaquemines, does not acquire the right to vote in Plaque-mines simply from the fact that he spends the greater part of his time on board of a boat which plies between New Orleans and 'Pilot Town, in Plaquemines, a voyage nearly wholly within the parish of Plaquemines.
[Ed. Note.. — Eor cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 18, Elections, §§ 67-74.]
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal from Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of Plaquemines; Nemours Henry Núñez, Judge.
Separate actions by B. E. Estopinal against Miguel Spicuzza, Peter Spicuzza, and Thomas Spicuzza, consolidated on appeal. Judgments for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
Affirmed.
John Dymond, Jr., for appellants. Warren Doyle, for appellee.

Opinion:
PROVOSTY, J.
Three separate suits, against as many defendants, have been consolidated in this appeal, and have been submitted without brief. The object of the suits is to have the defendants stricken from the registration roll of the parish of Plaquemines for the alleged reason that they are not residents of the parish.
The three defendants are brothers and joint owners of two boats which ply between Pilot Town, in the parish of Plaquemines, and New Orleans. Two of the defendants act as captain of the boats, and one as clerk. They have an office in New Orleans, and none in Plaquemines. Their families reside in New Orleans. They have never resided, and are not shown to have ever voted, in Plaque-mines ; while one at least of them was at one time registered in New Orleans. Each boat makes eight trips a month to Pilot Town, and defendants spend most of their time on board. They sleep on board when at Pilot Town. Their claim is that the boats are their principal establishment and their residence, and that these boats are nearly all the time in the parish of Plaquemines, since nearly the entire length of their voyage is within the limits of that parish.
Manifestly, the defendants are residents of the city of New Orleans.
Judgments affirmed.