State v. Judge of the Court of Probates

An application for a mandamus to the Judge of the Court of Probates of the parish of St. Tammany, has been made by Brumfield, with a view to compel him to issue an execution, to enforce the payment of a judgment heretofore obtained by Brumfield against Ann Mortee, as administratrix of Peter Mortee’s estate.

*356The judge, in his answer, states, that on the 5th of November, 1841, he issued an alias fi.fa. in the above suit, upon the written order of the plaintiff’s counsel. That said execution was enjoined by Thomas J. Mortee, syndic of Ann Mortee, by order of the Court of Probates of the parish of…