Supreme Court of the United States March 10, 1890, 140 (Louisiana Ex Rel. New York Guaranty & Indemnity Co. v. Steele)

Mr. Justice Bradley

delivered the opinion of the court.

* This case arose upon a petition filed'in -the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans in February, 1884, by The New York Guaranty^nd Indemnity Company, a corporation 'of'New York, as remtors, in the name of the State of Louisiana, for a ihandámus to compel Allen Jumel, the auditor of public accounts of the State, to proceed under a