Davis v. Orr

This is an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the clerk of the district court of the parish of Red River to grant a suspensive appeal from an order made by him, at the instance of the plaintiff (R. W. Davis), from- a writ of injunction restx-aining relators from erecting derricks and drilling for oil and gas upon a certain tract of land in said parish. The application fails to disclose that any previous notice of the intention to make it was given, either to the clerk or to the opposing party or his counsel, as required by rule 15 of this court (67 South, xi);1 and, though the clerk…