State ex rel. Caldwell v. Judge of the Fourth District Court
State ex rel. Caldwell v. Judge of the Fourth District Court
Opinion of the Court
The relator complains that the judge of the Fourth District Court of New Orleans refuses to grant her appeals from two orders rendered by him in a certain suit pending in that court, and numbered on its docket 41,696, which orders she alleges would work irreparable injury to her if carried into effect. She prays this court to issue a mandamus, commanding the said judge to grant the appeals prayed for to this court.
The facts presented by the petition are, that in a certain case, numbered as aforesaid, pending in the Fourth District Court of New Orleans, entitled Mary Malady v. Wm. Malady and Mary Caldwell, the plaintiff, Mary Malady seeking to have a partition made of certain property in New Orleans, consisting of houses and lots owned in common by her with the defendants, obtained an order appointing experts to examine and report, whether the property is susceptible of division in kind or not. The report of the experts was made and filed in court on the seventeenth of January, 1874, declaring that the property is not susceptible of division in kind. On the same day, an order was rendered at the instance of the plaintiff, homologating the report of the experts. On the twenty-sixth of January, within ten days of the filing in court of the report of experts, an opposition to the homologation of the report was filed on behalf of the relator, alleging various grounds of
It is from these orders that the relator complains. She was refused appeals. A rule nisi was granted, and the judge answered at some-length. He assigns various reasons for refusing the appeals prayed for, and among them, that the orders are merely interlocutory, and in his opinion, not such as can operate an irreparable injury. Upon consideration of the facts of this case as we find them, we come to a-different conclusion. The relator swears that irreparable injury will result to her from the denial of the appeals, and we think she presents-a case entitling her to the right of appeal. It is therefore ordered that the rule be made absolute, and that the respondent be ordered to grant the relator the appeals prayed for, upon compliance on her part with the law, by giving good and sufficient security, conditioned as the law directs.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- State ex rel. Mary B. Caldwell v. The Judge of the Fourth District Court, Parish of Orleans
- Status
- Published