State ex rel. Rudy v. Tomkies

Application eor Writs oe Certiorari,

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

Relator is defendant in the suit entitled Lewis Oliff vs. I. J. Rudy, which is pending in the court of the respondent in the Fourth Ward of Caddo parish ; and his complaint is that he called up and disposed of said cause in the absence of the relator and his *1163counsel — deciding the case against him without having heard him or his witnesses and in violation of the plain provisions of the law.

His contention is that after said cause had been several times continued it was set for trial on the 21st of April,…