State ex rel. Neyland v. Read

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

Robert L. Belden sued the relator on a balance claimed as being due by her. The suit was brought before the magistrate of the Third Ward of Calcasieu.

The relator answered, and pleaded in reconvention an amount exceeding three hundred dollars.

Her demand in reconvention was dismissed for want of jurisdiction. The court pronounced judgment for plaintiff Belden in the sum of fifty-five dollars and fifty cents. The defendant, the relator here, appealed to the District Court.

The relator further sets forth in her application for a mandamus that five…