Case ID: la-ann_3/html/0693-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Slid el i,, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte Travers.
    The jurisdiction of the Supreme .Court as to fines under $300 in amount, imposed by municipal corporations, is limited to .cases jn which the constitutionality or legality of the fine is contested.
    EULE to show cause why a mandamus should not be issued to a justice of the peace jn New Orleans.
    
      J. M. Wolfe, for ¡the plaintiff in the rule.
   The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Slid el i,, J.

This court having jurisdiction as to the constitutionality or legality only of fines imposed by municipal corporations, and it not appearing that such questions are proposed to be, ,or could b.e .examined upon appeal in this case, (see Third Municipality v. Blanc, 1 An. 385,) it is therfore ordered that the application for a writ of mandamus j.n this case be dismissed, with costs to be paid by the applicant. 
      
      A similar rule taken by one Grow, was.dismissed at tlio samo time, and for thosamo reasons. If.