State ex rel. Hoffman v. Judge of Division B, Civil Dist. Court
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Application by the State, on the relation of Daniel H. Hoffman, Jr., for an order to show cause why a writ of mandamus should-not issue to compel the Judge of Division B, Civil District Court, to rescind an ex parte order of continuance of hearing of a rule against the Southern Bonded Warehouse Company, Incorporated. Proceedings dismissed, with leave to renew.
1Opinion
On the Merits.
PROVOSTY, J.
For doing business in the city of New Orleans, corporations are required to obtain a certificate from the district court. The relator company alleges that it obtained such a certificate in 1917 under-the name of Southern Warehouses, and that since then it has been doing a warehouse business in that city in that name; that in 1921 the said district court inadvertently issued a certificate to the Southern Bonded Warehouse Company, authorizing it to do business in the latter name; that from the similarity of this name with that of relator great confusion has’resulted in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kuhn v. BreardSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1921