Baron v. Kingsland
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dis. APPLICATION POR A MANDAMUS. An application to remove this cause from the Parish Court for the city and parish of New-Orleans, to the Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, was made by the defendants, alleging that they were citizens of the state of Pennsylvania, and that the plaintiff was a citizen of this state. The affidavit of one of the defendants to these facts, and the necessary bond were annexed to the petition for removal.
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Eastern Dis. APPLICATION POR A MANDAMUS. An application to remove this cause from the Parish Court for the city and parish of New-Orleans, to the Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, was made by the defendants, alleging that they were citizens of the state of Pennsylvania, and that the plaintiff was a citizen of this state. The affidavit of one of the defendants to these facts, and the necessary bond were annexed to the petition for removal. Judgment by default was entered on motion of the plaintiff’s counsel, while the defendants’ counsel was endeavoring to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court, Porter, J. absent, was delivered by
Mathews, J.
This cause is brought before the Supreme Court on a rule nisi obtained against the Parish Court of the parish and city of New-Orleans, to show cause why a mandamus should not issue ordering the inferior tribunal to remove, or suffer the caseto be removed to a court of the United States.
Whether the reasons given by the court below justifying the refusal to permit the removal of the cause, would or would not be considered sufficient in a case legally cognisable by *379this court, we deem it useless to inquire, believing that…
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