Trudeau v. New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad

The answers of a witness to the interrogatories having been accidentally omitted by the Clerk, we permitted appellant’s counsel (after the case was submitted and the omission had been suggested by the appellees’ brief,) to move for a writ of certiorari.

The return to the writ perfected the record.

Plaintiff’s counsel thereupon moved the court to annul the order allowing the certiorari, because, it is assumed, it could not issue where a case was under advisement.

It was conceded by the learned counsel for ■ the appellant, that the court had the power to grant the order for the writ; but he'…