Wright v. Carmouche

The relator in this case is the plaintiff in á suit pending in the district court for the Twenty-Eighth judicial district. Soon after the suit was put at issue by the defendant’s answer, one of the two judges for the district, Judge H. N. Gautier, died. The other judge for the district, Judge Prentice E. Edrington, was disqualified for the trial of the ease, because his son was one of the attorneys for the plaintiff. See Act No. 203 of 1918. Therefore, on motion of plaintiff’s attorney, Judge Edrington recused himself, and he appointed Hon. A. T. Higgins, a member of the bar, as judge ad hoc.…