State ex rel. Courthouse Commission v. Board of Liquidation of City Debt
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans: George I-I. Théard, Judge. Application by the State, on the relation of the Courthouse Commission, for a writ of mandamus to the Board of Liquidation of the City Debt of the City of New Orleans. From an order granting the relief asked in part, relator appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
*341Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
Relator (hereafter called the “commission”) seeks by mandamus to compel respondent (hereafter called the “board”) to apply to the payment of its (relator’s) warrants the sum of $159,010.03, of which respondent is custodian, together with certain interest thereon; and the petition asks that there also be included other sums to be collected, but that part of the demand seems to have been abandoned. The judge a quo made the mandamus peremptory, to the extent of ordering that the board honor relat- or’s warrants up to $99,260.63, plus the interest earned on that…
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