State ex rel. Johnson v. Rightor

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

A. L. Johnson filed a petition in the respondent’s court, in which he claimed a large sum against the city of New Orleans, and requested the issuance of a writ of injunction against her, on certain grounds therein stated. The respondent granted an order directing the defendant to show cause on a day fixed, why the writ should not issue; and upon due hearing thereof, he refused to grant it. The relator assigns here that this act of the respondent was arbitrary and illegal, and “that there is absolutely no remedy or relief in the ordinary…