State ex rel. Guion v. Chauvin
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Proceedings by tbe State of Louisiana, on the relation of George Seth Guión, District Attorney, for writ of mandamus, against Frank Chauvin, Parish Treasurer. The Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans . reversed a judgment of the district court issuing a peremptory writ against respondent, and relator brings certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtSommerville, J.
Relator, district attorney for the Twenty-Seventh judicial district, composed of the parishes of Ascension, St. James, and Assumption, applied for and obtained an alternative writ of mandamus ordering respondent, the parish treasurer of St. James parish, to pay Mm three certain warrants of $62.50 each, issued by the police jury of said parish for salary of the district attorney for the months of February, March, and April, 1919, under a certain contract made by relator with the police jury under and by virtue of section 4 of Act No. 30, Extra Session 1877, p. 47.
Respondent denied that the…
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