State ex rel. Illinois Central Railroad v. Judges of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The representations of the relator are, that one Ellen Johnson instituted suit against it for two thousand dollars damages for alleged injuries received, and that on trial there was judgment rendered in plaintiff’s favor for the full amount claimed, from which relator suspensively appealed to the respondents’ court at its session to be held in the parish of Tangipahoa-on the second Monday of February, 1895.

That at said term said cause was duly argued and submitted to the respondents, and that at the time of the submission it was agreed that…