State ex rel. Holmes v. Wiltz

(Lea, J., dissenting.) The defendant, holding a commission from the late Governor, as Recorder of Mortgages for the parish of Orleansj for two years from the 1st day of March, 1885, has appealled from a judgment ordering him, by peremptory mandamus, to register the bond, and recognize the capacity of the relator, Holmes, who was commissioned by the present Governor on the 18th March, 1856, as “Recorder of Mortgages for the parish of Orleans, vice Emile Wilts, whose term of office has expired by the provisions of an Act entitled “an Act creating a Recorder of Mortgages for the parish of…