STATE EX REL. MAITREJEAN v. DEMAREST

No. 41538.

85 So.2d 522 (1956)

229 La. 300

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Herbert W. MAITREJEAN v. Francis J. DEMAREST, Recorder of Mortgages for the Parish of Orleans and Graham & Graham.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 16, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Porteous & Johnson, New Orleans, for respondent and appellant.

Ellis, Lancaster, Wright & Daly, Frank B. Ellis, James E. Wright, Jr., New Orleans, for relator and appellee.


FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Graham and Graham, attorneys at law, having secured a judgment in the Parish of Orleans in favor of the relator, Herbert W. Maitrejean, against his wife, decreeing a separation from bed and board, with a dissolution of the community of acquets and gains, and ultimately a final divorce, instituted suit against relator in St. Tammany Parish (where he resides) to recover the fees for their services in those proceedings, during the pendency of...

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