State ex rel. Le Conte v. Judge Fourth District Court

This case comes to this Court by assignment from the Honorable Supreme Court of the State. It is an application for writs of mandamus and prohibition. Relators are defendants in suit No. 45,625 on the docket of the late Fourth District Court for this parish, being sued for $600 and interest, upon the allegation that they had collected a note belonging to Mrs. Emily Williams, plaintiff in said cause, by her intrusted to them for collection. Defendants, in reply, aver that they, with the assent of petitioner, compromised the claim represented by said note with the maker for two hundred and…