State ex rel. City of New Orleans v. Judge of the Sixth District Court

The city of New Orleans asks for a writ of mandamus directing the judge of the Sixth District Court for the parish of Orleans *121to grant a suspensive appeal from the judgment in the case of the State, ex rel. Charles Fitz, v. W. S. Mount, Treasurer, which was signed on the twenty-seventh December, 1869, and also for a prohibition restraining the judge and the plaintiff in said proceeding from executing said judgment pending this application.

The judge answers that he refused the appeal “ because he did not believe that the petition presented to him contained any allegation warranting the belief…