State ex rel. Beauvais v. Judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

The opinion of the court was delivered by

McENERY, J.

The relator instituted a suit in the District Court, parish of St. James, and believing himself aggrieved by the judgment appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The appellate court rendered a judgment in the case and on rehearing dismissed the appeal of relator for want of jurisdiction ratione material. Relator invokes the supervisory jurisdiction of this court to compel the respondents to take jurisdiction of the cause.

*673In the brief of the defendants to the original suit there is a discussion as to the stage of the ease when the…