New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-08
THE COURTS.
Suit Against the Slaughterhouse Com
DAnYs


trict Courts, of which the following is a
sample.
To the Honorable the Judge of the Fourth District
Court for the Parish OF Orleans:
The petition of Louis Ruch, resident of
the city Of New Orleans, respectfully rep
resents that the Crescent City Live stock
Landing and Slaughterhouse Company, the
city of New Orleans, legally ncorpoffa!ea OF .h;l
bodies located within the jurisdiction OF this
honorable court, Franklin j. Pratt, z. A.
Weed, William George, j. A. hsynai,
Thomas Isabelle and Simeon Belden, d. Z.
Dibble and Joseph P. Hornor, all residents
of the city of New Orleans, are Justly in
debted to him, an Solido, in the sum OF two
hundred dollars damages, 1or this:
the business of killing and pre-
pairing meat for sale i'll the markets
of the city of New Orleans; that on the
evening of the fourth OF June, 1871, your
petitioner killed at the establishment OF
'sThe Live Stock Dealers and Butchers
Association" in the city of New Orleans.
Just below the United States Barracks. three
peeves. two yearlings and two hogs, de-
signed for the market of the mornlpg OF the
fifth of June, and that he placed the meat IN
his cart, and in bringing it up to the market
place in the morning, at L'yslan Fieios
street, the officers Of police Illegally TOOK
possession of his cart, horse and meat, aud
carried the same to the Third District sta
ton, where the meat was detained, piled up
in the carts. and exposed to the rays of the
sun until it was spoiled and became utterly
worthless. That said meat was fully worth
the sum of two hundred dollars, IN this mar
ket.
Your petitioner represents that his prop
erty was illegally and wantonly taken from
him, and thus destroyed through the COM
bined action Of the Crescent City Live Stock
7 fp- (0mDAnV.
| through its presldent-the city OF New Or
leans through it's agents and police officers.
aud F. j. Pratt, C. A. Weed, William
George, j. A. Raynal, Thomas Isabelle,
Simeon Belden, H. G. Dibble and Joseph ?.
Hornor. That the acts of each and all ot
| said corporations and parties, IN thus de-
stroying his property, were illegal, malicious
and oppressive, and done with the will and
| intent of damaging petitioner in his property,
| as above set forth, aud that each OF said
corporations and parties are liable to the
petitioner, IN sOlldO, for the payment OF
| two hundred dollars.
Wherefore your petitioner prays for cita-
| ton on each of said corporations, through
| their proper officer, and on each OF the
| above named parties, and after due proceed
| ings had, he have and recover Judgment
| against them, in S0lidO, for two hundred
| dollars, with interest from judicial demand,
| with costs, and for all and general relief
| Cotton Leovy, Fellows & Mills, Campbell,
Spofferd & Campbell, attorneys.
Eighth District Court.
Ship Island Canal Company VS..
| City of New Orleans This case
came up for trial yesterday, upon
mandamus compelling the city to deliver to
him 100000 in per cent. bonds. Mr..
Semmes offered in evidence the ordinance of
the city of jefferson, authorizing the issuing
| of $500, ,000, and copy OF the contract De-
tween the Mayor of the city Of Jefferson
and the Ship Island Company.
Major New read the petition Of George F..
Brott, showing that by an ordinance OF the
city of Jefferson, of November 8, 1869, the
| Mayor of the city of Jefferson was authorized
| to issue 100000 in eight per cent bonds,
payable in thirty years, in favor OF the Ship
| Island Canal Company, and for which bends
| the city of New orleans became responsible
| by the act OF annexation. The argument of
the case was postponed until Saturday, the
eighteenth Of June.
State ex rel. Attorney General and John
r. Clay VS.. Blandin.-This is a case in which
| it is claimed that John R. Clay has been ap-
i pointed by the Governor Collector of Taxes
| for the Third District of New Orleans, and
| that the defendant is usurplpg the functions
of the office. The case came up for argu-
ment yesterday, and at six O'Clock the jury
| Drought Ia NeTulCl lOT tUS uSlcUudAts
Seventh District Court.
, John P. Baker VS.. John McGinty.-In this
case plaintiff claims S247S 80. He alleges
that on the sixth and eleventh of December
last, ne sold and transferred to John Nc.
| Ginty his right and title to certain contract
entered into with the Board Of Public
| Works, for making or building the levee IN
front of the Woods plantation, in the parish
of Ibervilie (about II 900 yards, more or
less), and for a levee in front of B. Dupuy' s
| plantation, in the same parish (about $4,000
| yards, more or less); that at the time the
| contract as signed between himself ana
| defendant, he received $1,000; that at the
| same time McGinty accepted $3.50 cubic
yards of the Dupuy levee, built by petitioner,
| at fifty cents per yard, and that he lent to
| defendant various boats and articles to
enable him to carry on his work. and that
the balance due petitioner is STATS.
Out Of Nepair.
The gangway leading to the clerks office
| Of the Fifth District Court is mseraoly out
of repair, the sleepers being rotten and la
| bic to fall, and unless something is done to
| remedy the defect the city may have dam
| ages 10 pay to crippled lawyers, to say
nothing OF the deep griet all would endure
| should we be called upon to record the oblt'
uary of Colonel Louis Power and his gentle
manly assistants.
Vaited stntes Circuit Court-sult DS
| Census Taker. .
| Aaron de Lola, for the use OF the Y nlted
States. VS.. Thomas McKnight.-In this case
plaintiff AYERS that he is al assistant to the
| United States Marshal, ana commissioned
| to make an enumeration of the inhabitants
| and collect other statistics within the DIS
trict of Louisiana, for the purpose of taking
the census. On the third of June, in the
performance of his duties, he visited the
dwelling of Thomas Mcknight, Jr., and in
quired of him tor information necessary to
the proper taking of the census, which said
| Mcknight refused to give. For this the
claimant sues Mcknight, under an act OF
Congress, for the sum of thirty dollars, for
the use of the government. A. b. Long,
| United States District Attorney, for plalntlf.
| Rank of Louisiana In Bankruptcy
In the case of John Thornhill against the
Bank of Louisiana, Judges Bradley and
| Woods yesterday made an order to the fol-
| lowing effect: That all orders in this case
made by the Circuit and District Courts
| since the twenty-first of January, 1870, the
date OF the Injunction granted by the Circuit
| Judge, be and the same are hereby vacated
and annulled, and it is ordered that all
| things be restored to the condition in which
they stood at the date of said Injunction.
second district Ccurt-succ.s'ion of j.
The following is a copy of the will OF the
| late J. W. Zacharie:
| |, James Waters Zacharie, being III good
| health and aware of the uncertainty OF life,
make this my last alographic will and tesla
ment.
| desire my estate, both real and personal,
to be settled according 20 the laws OF the
State of Louisiana, and to this end l ap'
| Zscharie, to be my sole eXecutrix, without
| egactinp from her any security for her