New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-14

Eighth District Court.
James Flynn and Ed. E. Duffy va. Board
| Of metropolitan Police.-The plaintiffs are
| proprietors of the beer saloon. No. &c st.
Charles street, and ask an Injunction re-
| straining the defendants from arrestiug their
employees and from interfering with thei.
! business by roiding upon them at night, and
| as alleged, for the purpose of leyying black
| mail.
Judge Dibble issued rule nisi, calling
| ON the defendants to show cause why the
| Injunction should not issue.
| The matter came up yesterday, and
| counsel for defendants desired to file certain
! documents. going to show the immoral char
| acter Of the entertainments at the establish
| ment. Objection being made that such
| documents could not be introduced under a
| rule, the court sustained the objection, and
| the case was continued over till this morning
Snit Against the New Orleans, MObil
| and Chattanooga Railroad.
short time since suit was instituted in
| the Eighth District Court against the New
! Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad,
| i'll which an injunction was asked tor to re-
strain the company from blocking up, with
their fences and depot. Eotre Dame street,
which the petitioners allegc is q locus pub
icus.
Judge Dibble, for certain reasons given,
| refused the injunction prayed for.
Yesterday the plaintiff, through counsel,
fled supplemental and amended petition,
| in which he sets up specially that the acts
| of the Legislature passed in 1869 and 1870.
! by virtue of which certain alleged grants
| and rights Of way are awarded to the COM
pany, are unconstitutional, null and void.
He claims that these acts were in violation
| of article ten of the constitution of the
| United States and the first section of the
fourteenth amendment to said constitution,
! and that they are in violation of section
| twenty, article six, of the constitution Of
five Of the constitution of 1864, and article
| one hundred and ten Of the constitution OF
1868.
Suit Against the City.
The late Administrators of the Water
works have brought suit in the Sixth Dis
trict Court, in which they (Mr. Hatch and
others) claim about $50, 900 from the city.
The plaintiffs in this cause claim that they
are not only entitled to a reasonable cOnsid
Grafton for services rendered as managers OF
the entire waterworks of the city for the
term of one year, but that they are also on
titled to q consideration for negotiating tn,
sale of said works, in which they assert that
they saved the city $600,0OO in bonds, which
| the city would have Issued but for theil
vigilance and foresight.
| Divorce Case.
Mrs. W. Tervine VS.. John Miller, her hus
| band.-In this case plaintiff sued fora sepa
ration Of property and divorce, claiming
about $3.50 as the value of her parapherna
property. Defendant reconvened for abou.
$500, claimin. that he had paid mOrtgag g
on certain property claimed by his wife.
Judge Dibble rendered Judgment OF non
suit against the plaintiff, 50 far as concerns
her original claim, and against defendant
on his unconventional demand. and granted
4 r.
| the divorce as prayed for
The court said that it was unable to make
ANYTHING out of some one hundred pages O
testimony which had been submitted IN the
| case.
&c. Mahan VS.. Antoine Dubuciet, State
| Treasurer-In this case plaintiff AYERS tina
az State Tax Collector he received u large
number of State warrants, which were
stolen from his safe, and traced to the pos
session of the defendant as State Treasurer
Mahan seeks to shield himself from thu
loss of the warrants, by compelling thu
State Treasurer to give him credit on thu
treasury books tor the amount OF the war
rants Plaintiff alleges that he lent. thu
warrants to the late Ascending Auditor
Wickliffe, to be used on his Impeachment
trial, and that he never returned them.
The counsel OF plaintiff prayed to hay'
the State Treasurer. Duhuclet, brought int
court: the counsel for Frizzell, intervenOr
Directing.
After argument upon both sides, the Judg
ruled that the warrants should be filed II
court, in order that all parties concerned
could take a look ut them.
United States Circuit Court.
In this court, United States District AT
torney Beckwith, a few days ago, called u
the case of Perry Fuller, ex-C Collector OF tn
port of New Orleans, who is under indict
ment in nineteen cases for fraudulent entire
of sugar and coffee during his term Of office
The amount of sugar and coffee fraudulent
entered is alleged to be about 81 10000
On motion of Mr.. Beckwith, an ALA
capias was ordered by Judge Durell. -
supreme Court.
This court was in session yesterday. an
will continue to sit until the close nj tn
week, when it is expected it will adiour
over until after the eighth Of January.