Ascension Red Cypress Co. v. New River Drainage Dist.

I declined to subscribe to the order on the respondent, Ascension Red Cypress Company, to show cause why the r.elief prayed for by the relator, New River Drainage District, should not be granted, and I respectfully dissent from the opinion and decree rendered in the case.

In Keiffe v. La Salle Realty Co., 163 La. 824, 112 So. 799, 53 A. L. R. 82, the order to produce the papers described in the order was addressed to a third party, the Item Company, not a party to the suit. The order was granted under authority of article 141 of the Code of Practice, which declares that the courts may, at the…