Case ID: la-ann_37/html/0605-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bermudez, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 9454.
    The State ex rel. New Orleans Gas Light Company vs. Wm. Voorhies, Judge Second City Court.
    A court which has no jurisdiction over a cause ratione material, exceeds the bounds of its authority when it issues therein an injunction.
    Such court has in such cases no power to entertain a rule for contempt for violation of such illegally issued injunction.
    ^PPLICATION for Prohibition.
    
      T. J. Semmes & Payne for the Relator.
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.