Case Name: NEW ORLEANS, T. & M. R. CO. v. STATE BOARD OF APPRAISERS. In re MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF CITY OF CROWLEY et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1914-06-29
Citations: 135 La. 729
Docket Number: No. 20,684
Parties: NEW ORLEANS, T. & M. R. CO. v. STATE BOARD OF APPRAISERS. In re MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF CITY OF CROWLEY et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 135
Pages: 730–730

Head Matter:
(66 South. 160)
No. 20,684.
NEW ORLEANS, T. & M. R. CO. v. STATE BOARD OF APPRAISERS. In re MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF CITY OF CROWLEY et al.
(June 29, 1914.)
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal and Errob (§ 151*) — Right op Appeal — Parties.
The right of appeal is given, not only to those who were parties to the cause in which a judgment has been rendered against them, but also to third persons not parties to such suit, when such third persons allege that they have been aggrieved by the judgment.
[Ed. Note. — Por other cases, see Appeal and Error, Cent. Dig. §§ 947-952; Dec. Dig. § 151.*]
Action by the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railroad Company against the State Board of Appraisers. The petition of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Crowley for a devolutive appeal from the judgment was refused, and they apply for a writ of mandamus.
Mandamus ordered to issue.
Harry W. Gueno and P. S. Pugh, both of Crowley, for applicants. t

Opinion:
SOMMERVILLE, J.
Relators, the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of Crowley and the police jury of the parish of Acadia, alleging themselves to be interested in and aggrieved by the judgment rendered in the case entitled New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railroad Co. v. State Board of Appraisers (No. 2934), on the civil docket of the Twenty-Second judicial district- court of East Baton Rouge parish, and that they petitioned the said court for a devolutive appeal from said judgment, which petition was refused, ask that a mandamus issue, directed to the respondent judge, ordering him to grant a devolutive appeal from the judgment referred to.
The right of appeal by relators from the judgment in which they are interested, and by which they allege themselves to be aggrieved, is given to them by the law; and it is respondent's duty to grant the appeal applied for. C. P. art. 571.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that a mandamus issue herein, addressed to Harney P. Brunot, judge of the Twenty-Second judicial district court of East Baton Rouge parish, ordering him to grant relators a devolutive appeal from the judgment rendered in the cause of New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railroad Co. v. State Board of Appraisers (No. 2934), on the civil docket of said court, with costs.