State ex rel. Rosetta Gravel Paving & Improvement Co. v. Judges of the Civil District Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

McEnery, J.

The relator filed in the Civil District Court, parish of Orleans, five suits against the New Orleans Traction Company, Limited, for the sum of one hundred and twenty thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirteen cents, each of said suits being based on the identical cause of action, and each but a duplicate of the other. The object and purpose, as the relator declares, *1602in filing these suits was to obtain the chance of having his cause allotted to a division of said court, then open and transacting business. If one of the cases…