State v. Buchanan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE BUCHANAN PRESIDING. In the case of Gray vs. Cochran, the defendant prayed and obtained a suspensive appeal, on giving bond with one Joseph Grant, as security in the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars, conditioned according to law.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE BUCHANAN PRESIDING. In the case of Gray vs. Cochran, the defendant prayed and obtained a suspensive appeal, on giving bond with one Joseph Grant, as security in the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars, conditioned according to law. The plaintiff took a rule on the defendant and appellant, to show cause why the appeal should not be dismissed, on account of the insufficiency of the security offered, which was made absolute on hearing the parties. The appellant offered an additional surety, which the district judge refused to…
1Opinion of the CourtEustis, J.
On a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not. issue to the judge of the first judicial district, commanding him to *575allow a suspensive appeal, the judge made the following return :
“ The undersigned now comes into the Supreme Court, and, for answer to this rule, respectfully shows: that it appears from the record of the case of Gray vs. Cochran, that a judgment rendered against the defendant, and condemning him to restore to the plaintiff certain property, was notified to the -defendant on the 6th April, 1839. On the 16th April, 1839, a petition of appeal was filed, and an order was made…
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