State ex rel. City of New Orleans v. Voorhies

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

This is an application for a Prohibition.

The complaint is that the district judge, over the- objections of the relator, has persisted in entertaining jurisdiction over a controversy decided by a city judge, from whose judgment an appeal lies to this court and not to the District Court.

The respondent judge denies any usurpation of authority and undertakes to vindicate his course.

It appears that a suit was brought before the First City Court, by a husband and Ms wife, in which the former claiming to be tho owner of certain improved real…