State ex rel. Tyrrell v. Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial District Court

The opinion of the Oourt was delivered by

Todd, J.

On the 28th of October, 1881, the relator obtained a judgment before a justice of the peace, in the parish of Point Ooupee, against one Mac Johnson,'for sixty dollars and interest. From this judgment the defendant in the case appealed to the District Oourt of said parish, presided over by the Hon. John Yoist, defendant in the present proceeding.

After the appeal was filed in the appellate court, the relator’s attorney filed an exception alleging that the District Judge, Hon. John Yoist, had a personal interest in the result of the suit, and…