State ex rel. Duncan v. Judge of the Twelfth Judicial District

This is an application for a mandamus upon the Judge of the Twelfth Judicial District Court, in and for the Parish of Ouachita, to compel the said Judge to grant an appeal to this Court, from an order or judgment setting aside the appointment of a provisional administrator to Mrs. Ann M. Taylor, defendant, in a case of interdiction.

The petition states, in substance, that the relators, on the 13th January, 1866, filed a petition in said Court of Ouachita, alleging various facts going to show incapacityin said Mrs. Taylor to administer her estate, and consequently, praying for her interdiction…