Ex Parte Ralston
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. ■ These were applications to the court as a court of original jurisdiction (1) for a writ of mandamus to compel the cleric below to send up a transcript of a record, and (2) to vacate a ; supersedeas. The case is stated in the opinion of the court. ,
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This is an application for a writ of mandamus requiring the cleric of- the Supreme Court of the state of Louisiana to transmit to this court a true copy of the record in that court'of á judgment in the suit of the British and American Mortgage Company against Mrs. E. J. Ealston and her. husband, omit- ' ting therefrom certain portions not material to the Federal question involved. From the .showing made it sufficiently appears that the judgment was rendered April 5, 1886, and . that on the 31st of May, 1886, the Chief Justice of the state court allowed a writ of error to this court, “on…
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