State ex rel. A. Lehman & Co. v. King

46 La. Ann. 163
CourtSupreme Court of Louisiana
DecidedFebruary 15, 1894
DocketNo. 11,422
StatusPublished
Cited by12 cases

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Bluebook
State ex rel. A. Lehman & Co. v. King, 46 La. Ann. 163 (La. 1894).

Opinion

The opinion of the court was delivered by

NichollSj O. J.

Relators represent that on January 1, 1894, they applied to the Hon. N. H. Rightor, one of the judges of the Civil District Court for the parish of Orleans, in the ease entitled A. Lehman & Co. et als. vs. Walter P. Walsh, for an injunction against said Walter P. Walsh, their petition being verified by proper affidavits.

That the said judge granted the injunction as prayed for conditioned upon relators furnishing bond in the sum of $1000, which they did furnish with good and solvent security, and the injunction was thereupon issued by the clerk of the court, enjoining and restraining the said Walsh from carrying on business in the stores Nos. 145 Canal street and 7 and 9 Bourbon street in New Orleans, and from making any use of said premises except for the purpose of preparing for the removal of the goods therein belonging to said Walsh.

[165]*165That on the same day a duly certified copy of said injunction under the seal of the court was served upon the said Walsh in person.

That the said petition and application for injunction was presented to the said judge prior to the allotment of said cause as authorized by the Constitution of the State and the rules of said court; that said cause was not allotted according to the rules of said court until the following day, Tuesday, January 2, 1894, when same was allotted to Division “B” of said court, presided over by Hon. Fred. D.'King.

That at about the hour of 11 o’clock A. M. on said Tuesday, January 2, 1894, and before the allotment of said cause, the following order was endorsed on said injunction served upon the said Walsh, to-wit:

“Upon representations of H. L. Lazarus and a full statement of the facts, the writ issued herein is suspended until the further order of the court and after hearing. New Orleans, January 2, 1894.

(Signed) . “ N. H. Rightor, Judge.”

That said copy of injunction with the said order endorsed thereon was thereupon filed in the clerk’s office of said Civil District Court. That said order of January 2, 1894, was rendered without notice to relators, without any hearing of any kind, and they did not know of same until after it had been filed in the clerk’s office as aforesaid.

That as soon after the allotment of said cause as possible relators appeared before the said Hon. Fred. D. King and asked for a suspensive appeal from said order, tendering a bond with good and solvent security in any amount to be fixed by the court, but on January 3, 1894, the said Hon. Fred. D. King refused said appeal as prayed for.. That said order of January 2, 1894, is absolutely null and void and without effect, for the following reasons:

1. That in advance of the allotment of said cause the said Hon. N. H. Rightor had no right or authority to act in said cause — the granting of the preliminary writ of injunction having exhausted his authority in the premises.

2. That said order was rendered without notice and without hearing of any kind.

3. That said order purported to be rendered because of the presentation to the court of certain facts — and an order regularly granted can not be set aside by the court upon matters of fact until final hearing of the cause.

[166]*166That under the Oonstitution of the State and the rules of said Civil District Court the granting of a preliminary writ by any judge of said court prior to an allotment does not in anywise affect the control of the cause by the judge to whom same may be allotted after the allotment, and therefore the said Hon. Fred. D. King, presiding judge of Division “B” of the Civil District Court, is alone competent to deal with said cause and is the only one of said judges against whom the process of this court may be directed as to said cause.

That relators are entitled to writs of certiorari, prohioitio n and mandamus to the end- that said proceedings be enquired into, the execution of said order of January 2, 1894, restrained, and an appeal given the relator therefrom; the said writs to be operative in their order, so that if the writ of certiorari be granted and made peremptory the other writs will be unnecessary; or if the writ of certiorari be finally refused and a writ of prohibition granted the writ of mandamus will be unnecessary, and if both the writs of certiorari and prohibition be refused or set aside after final hearing that then the writ of mandamus be made peremptory.

In view of the premises, relators’ prayer was that a writ of certiorari issue directed to the Hon. Fred. D. King, judge, commanding him to transmit the original record in the suit of A. Lehman & Co. vs. No. 41,200, Walter P. Walsh; that the validity of said order of January 2, 1894, may be enquired into and that said writ also be directed to the said Walsh, prohibiting him from acting under said order of January 2, 1894, and that in due course of law the said writ be made perpetual and said order annulled and set aside. Under the restriction before stated they prayed for a writ of prohibition directed to the said judge, enjoining him from enforcing or acting under said order of January 2, 1894, and that in due course said prohibition be made perpetual.

Under the restriction before stated they prayed for the issuance of a writ of mandamus commanding the said judge to grant a suspensive appeal from said order of January 2, 1894.

They prayed that Walsh be served with a copy of the proceedings.

This court ordered that a writ of certiorari issue and that the respondents show cause why the writs of mandamus and prohibition should not be granted as prayed for, but refrained from issuing any restraining order in the premises, for the reason that the petition [167]*167utterly failed to disclose, as it should have done, the character of the proceedings in the court below or the facts and circumstances of the case in which an intervention was asked. We were inclined, for this reason, to refuse relators’ application in its entirety.

In the answer filed by the judge of Division “B,” he states that he transmits not only the record in the case of A. Lehman & Co. vs. Walter P. Walsh, but other original records and copies incident to and connected with the litigation growing out of the seizures and attachments against the Runkel-Hoerner Company, Limited, in suits pending in the various divisions of the District Court for the parish of Orleans, and liquidation proceedings in which liquidators and ’receivers have been appointed and various orders granted therein; that he transmits and makes part of his answer the said records for the reason that they are part of and concern the same litigation of which the injunction sued out by A. Lehman & Co. et al. is but a part, and that said records show that all the attachment proceedings and cases, including those by relators, were transferred to and cumulated with the liquidation proceedings.

He avers that all the orders granted by him and the Hon. N. H. Rightor in the case aforesaid are legal and valid, and that relators are not entitled to a writ of certiorari.

That his own refusal to grant a suspensive appeal from the order suspending the injunction in the case of A. Lehman & Co. et al. vs. Walsh does not entitle relators to writs of mandamus and prohibition.

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