Case ID: la_114/html/0097-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PROVOSTY, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(38 South. 70.)
    No. 15,563.
    STATE ex rel. STEWART v. REID.
    (Feb. 27, 1905.)
    9l\ JUDGE — RECUSATION—REFERENCE TO ANOTHER JUDGE. '
    Where the trial judge is recused on the ground of his having been consulted as an attorney at law in the matter which forms the basis of the suit, he acts properly in referring the matter of the recusation to another judge for trial.
    (Syllabus by the Court.)
    Application by the state, on the relation of Morris R. Stewart, for writ of mandamus to David J. Reid.
    Denied.
    See 113 La. 890, 37 South. 866.
    Morris R. Stewart (E. Howard McCaleb, of counsel), for relator.
   PROVOSTY, J.

The defendant recused the judge of the Fifteenth Judicial District Court, in which this suit is pending, on the ground, among others, that before his election as judge he was consulted in the matter of a suit about to be instituted against the defendant, “based upon an alleged shortage claimed to be due at that time by your respondent herein, as tax collector, which is the basis of the action now sought to be prosecuted by relator herein, and that the matter, about which the said judge was thus consulted are the matters forming the basis of this case.”

If the facts here alleged be true, the reeusaation is well founded, and whether they are true is a matter which our Brother of the lower court properly referred to another judge to try. State ex rel. Ribbeck v. Foster, Judge, 112 La. 534, 36 South. 554.

Application denied.