Ascension Red Cypress Co. v. New River Drainage Dist.

The relator applies to this court for a writ of prohibition to restrain the judge of the Twenty-Third district court for the parish of Ascension from enforcing a subpoena duces tecum directed to relator in a' suit pending in said court wherein the Ascension Red Cypress Company, Limited, is the plaintiff and relator is the defendant. The subpoena duces tecum issued on motion of the plaintiff, and requires the defendant to produce and file with the clerk of court, on or before a fixed day, its account books, “showing the cash receipts and disbursements from the beginning of the year 1919 to the…