State ex rel. Gentry v. Mayor of Village of Dodson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Mandamus by the State, on relation of R. R. Gentry, against the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the Village of Dodson. The-district court awarded a peremptory writ and the judgment was affirmed by the Court of Appeal, and the Mayor and Board apply for certiorari or writ of review to the Court of Appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
NICHOLLS, J.
This case was before us under the number 16,956, on an appeal taken from a judgment rendered therein in the district court for the parish of Winn. The court, on examination of the record, having ascertained that the appeal was not-properly before it for want of jurisdiction, it was transferred to the Court of Appeal, parish of Winn. It was heard and decided, and it is now before us on a writ of review of that judgment.
The judgment brought up in that court for review was as follows:
“The relator was duly appointed marshal of the village of Dodson by the…
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