State ex rel. Wassell v. Judge of the Fourth District Court

The relator applies for the writ of prohibition to restrain tho execution of a judgment styled Abner L. Gains v. Wm. H. Gains, John Wassell, assignee, intervenor, rendered on the twenty-third of December, 1869, by tho judge of the Fourth District Court for the parish of Orleans, from which judgment, within ten days, an order of appeal was granted, fixing the amount of the appeal bond at $500, which was duly given by the relator.

He contends that, having obtained the order of appeal on motion, at the same term at which the judgment was rendered, and withiu the time limited for suspensive…