State ex rel. Mount v. Judge of the Sixth District Court

The Judge of the Sixth District Court of New Orleans having, on the relation of C. M. Prost, issued a writ of mandamus against William S. Mount, Treasurer of the city of Now Orleans, ordering him to pay Prost a sum of money, and the order being made absolute, the defendant, Mount, and the City of New Orleans, applied for and obtained suspensive appeals, which afterwards,' upon a rule taken upon them by the relator, Prost, were set aside. The defendants thereupon applied to this court for a writ of prohibition, and a rule nisi being granted, the judge responded in a written argument, in which…