Brown Shoe Company v. Hill
Decision Date | 17 April 1899 |
Docket Number | 13,137 |
Citation | 51 La.Ann. 920,25 So. 634 |
Parties | THE BROWN SHOE COMPANY v. J. N. HILL & BRO., ET AL |
Court | Louisiana Supreme Court |
Submitted April 3, 1899
IN RE The Brown Shoe Company Applying for Certiorari or Writ of Review to the Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, State of Louisiana.
C. S Wyly, for Relators.
This is not a case in which the writ of review should be granted. We took occasion in the case of J. O Toole vs. C. H. Minge, 50th La.Ann. 748, to lay down the rule which would govern the action of the court in respect to applications for the writ. It was there said, speaking of Art. 101 of the Constitution of 1898:
We have, as far as possible, in subsequent cases, adhered to the ruling in the Toole case, frequently citing the same as a controlling authority in respect to applications for the writ of review. We again affirm it as a correct interpretation of the true meaning and intention of Art. 101 of the Constitution.
In saying this we are not unmindful of Act 191 of the Acts of 1898, entitled "An Act relative to Courts of Appeal and to carry out the provisions of Art. 101 of the Constitution of this State."
Sec. 2 of that act, in declaring that the party cast in the Court of Appeals, or other person in interest who may feel aggrieved by the judgment rendered, shall, in any case, have the right to bring the cause before this court for its review and determination, goes beyond the constitutional intendment, and, so far as it does, is not to be followed.
The case of Toole vs. Minge, and other cases subsequent thereto defining the true meaning of the Article of the Constitution, were...
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