TRAHAN v. PETROLEUM CASUALTY COMPANY

No. 48576.

200 So.2d 6 (1967)

250 La. 949

Joseph TRAHAN v. PETROLEUM CASUALTY COMPANY et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 5, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Minos Simon, Lafayette, for relator.

J. J. Davidson, Jr., Edward C. Abell, Jr., Davidson, Meaux, Onebane & Donohoe, Lafayette, Thomas J. Meunier, New Orleans, Dodd, Hirsch, Barker & Meunier, Baton Rouge, amici curiæ.

Bernard J. Caillouet, W. J. McAnelly, Jr., New Orleans, Edward de la Garza, Gretna, for defendants-respondents.


McCALEB, Justice.

This workmen's compensation case filed in Lafayette Parish was brought here under our supervisory jurisdiction on application of the claimant who contends that the respondent judge has deprived him of a speedy and preferential trial in violation of law (R.S. 23:1315) by granting a continuance of his case on January 16, 1967, the date on which the hearing was fixed by prior order of the Court.

In relator's application, to which certain rules...

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