State ex rel. Carondelet Canal & Navigation Co. v. Pilsbury

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Egan, J.

This is a mandamus suit to compel the erasure from the books of the auditing officer of the city of New Orleans of a judgment in favor of the Commissioners of the New Orleans Park, registered July 1, 1873, in accordance with the provisions of the second section of act No. 5 of the extra session of 1870, and also to compel the payment of a judgment for $12,500 with five per cent interest from February 22, 1864, registered subsequently under the same act.

The defendants except—

First — That the court is without j urisdiction to issue the writ of…