Case ID: la-ann_28/html/0726-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Moegañ, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 4706.
    State of Louisiana vs. E. Booth.
    Defendant took a rule to show cause why the injunction taken against him should not he sot aside. The judge dismissed the rule, and considering that the rule was an answer, made the injunction perpetual. This was an error. The rule did not put the matters in contest between the plaintiff and defendant at issue, and the defendant, after the rule was discharged, had a right to file his answer. The case is remanded to give defendant an opportunity of answering.
    APPEAL from the Superior District Court, parish of Orleans. Haw-Mns, J.
    
      A. P. Field, Attorney General, and H. G. Dibble, for plaintiff and appellee.
    
      A. Voorlúes, A. J. Lewis, and Julien Michel, for defendant and appellant.
   Moegañ, J.

An injunction issued against the defendant, prohibiting him from carrying on his business, because it was alleged that he had not paid his license. He took a rule to show cause why the injunction should not be set aside. The judge dismissed the rule, and, considering that the rule was an answer, made the injunction perpetual. In this we think there was error. The rule did not put the matters in interest between plaintiff and defendant at issue, and the defendant, after the rule was discharged, had a right to file his answer. We think the case should be remanded to give the defendant an opportunity of answering.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the judgment of the district court be avoided, annulled, and reversed, and that the case be remanded to be proceeded in. according to law.