State ex rel. Bach v. Recorder of Conveyances

*224The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Levy, J.

The Board of Assessors of the State of Louisiana and' parish of Orleans applied for and obtained a writ of mandamus, compelling L. Arnauld as Register of Conveyances for the parish of Orleans to furnish relators with a weekly statement and certificate of all conveyances and transfers of property and real rights recorded in the books of his office, or show cause to the contrary.

The defendant, the Recorder of Conveyances, for answer to relator’s petition alleges, “ that, under Art. 146 of the Constitution of 1879 and Act 136 of the General…