Cattle Farms, Inc. v. Abercrombie

GEORGE JANVIER, Judge pro tern.

We granted certiorari believing that we sensed the possibility of error on the part of the District Judge in authorizing the presentation of evidence on the trial of an exception and in refusing to order the issuance of a subpoena which would require one of the defendants, James S. Abercrombie, to appear and testify at that trial.

The suit was designated by plaintiffs in their original petition and in their application for the writ of certiorari as “an action to quiet title; that is to say, an action to remove clouds and encumbrances from plaintiffs’ title to…