State v. Judge of the Eighth Judicial District

This is an application (with the proper averments showing interest and jurisdiction) for a writ of mandamus against the Judge of the Eighth Judicial District, to compel him to hold the courts for the April and May terms, in the parishes of St. Helena and Livingston.

The refusal of the Judge to hold the above named terms of the court, is the consequence of his construction of the recent Act of the Legislature, bearing the number 120, approved March 16th, 1859, and entitled “ an Act to change and regulate the terms of the District Courts in the Eighth Judicial District of the State of Louisiana.”