State ex rel. Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Judge of the Seventh District Court for the Parish of Orleans

This is an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the Judge of the Seventh District Court for the parish of Orleans to grant the relator a suspensive appeal from a judgment rendered in the suit of C. Seiler & Co. v. The Western Union Telegraph Company, which appeal the Judge, in his answer, says was .refused because the amount in dispute does not exceed five hundred dollars.

*729Tiie demand was for twelve hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty cents, but on the day following the trial and before judgment was rendered, the plaintiffs entered a remittitur of several items amounting to seven…