State ex rel. Boone v. Edwards

This is an application for writs of certiorari and prohibition to the judge of the Thirteenth judicial district sitting for the parish of Bienville.

The relator, who was defendant in a suit before a justice of peace court, took an appeal to the court of the respondent judge, and perfected his appeal by giving bond conditioned according to law. The effect of this was to change the forum of the cause from the original to the appellate court. In order, however, that the cause should pass from the one court to the other, it became necessary for the appellant to procure a transcript of the…