New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-28
INJUNCTION AGAINST BEAUREGARD
HIS RATIONs STOPPED BY LAW

HIS RATIONS STOPPED BY LAW
Yesterday morning a petition was filed IN
the Eighth District Court to the following
effect:
Henry s. McComb, J. H. Oglesby, Richard
Pritchard, E. 4. Summers, +: ). Pratt, a, l..
Grief, Louis Alces, of New Orleans, and j.
2. Alexander, of New York, and A. NJ.
West, P. B. Stark. j. C. Lucas, Z: N. saun-
ders and 7. 5. Mitchell, of Mississippi. snow
that they and Williamson Smith and W. A.
GORDON, a. Schneider, E. J. Forstall and q.
Hurston, were, on the twenty-hfth OF AprH,
1870, legally elected directors OF the Ne"
Orleans, jackson and Great Northern hali-
road.
That on the day following, at a meeting OF
the Directors, regularly convened, the said
H. S. McComo was elected President OF salc
com pany. and that the said President and
Directors are entitled TO administer the
affairs of the company for one year.,
Petitioners allege that General IT, i.
Beauregard and the old Board of Directors
refuse to vacate their positions, and retain
the property of the company and the ad-
ministration of it's affairs, although they
have no longer any official existence or
authority SO 10 do.
Petitioners aver that they are, each of
them, owners of stock in the railroad,
and interested in the administration OF Its
affairs.
Petitioners charge that the said former
president and directors have heretofore
lavishly expended money to defeat the
rights of the Governor OF the State ana the
Mavor of the city of New Orleans, and to
prevent them from casting the votes OF the
shares held by the State and city IN an
election for president and directors OF said
q trly0lOlS
which was subsequently decided against
them by the Supreme Court Of the State,
they succeeded in perpetuatiDg their power
| by depriving the city and State OF the right
to cast their votes.
Petitioners show that they will suffer ire
parable injury by permitting PRESIDENT
Beauregard and the old directors to remain
in Office. They ask that writ of Injunction
issue to the said Beauregard, aud to
| r. S. Charles secretary of the com
| pany, and to William Henderson, c. Eel
| loves. II. Florence, J. S. Warren, c. j. Leeds,
John Armstrong. Writ Adams, H.: Mont
gomery, Z. Green, John 3. Hemphiil. b. l.:
| Hatch, T. L. Gubernator, L. NJ. Howell and
| C, NJ. Selph, ordering them not to pay or
contract to pay any attorney or any other
persons to defend the said G. I. Beauregard
and the old directors in any legal proceed
| ings which may arise in the premises. Hays
| & New, Billings & Hughes and Randolph,
| Singleton & Bowen, attorneys for petl-
| TONERS.
Upon the above showing, Judge Dibble
issued the following:
To G. T Besurogard Acting President, and r. s..
| Charles, Acting Secretary and Treasurer, New
Orleans. Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
| Company, greeting:
H. S. McComb, President, ct els. vs. G..
T. Beauregard ct als.-You are hereby COM
manded enioned and restrained, IN the
name of the State OF Louisiana and of the
Eighth District Court for the parish of Or
leans, as follows:
pay, for the services OF any attorney or
any other person to defend q. /. Beaure-
! gard. President, and r. 5. Charles, Secre-
| tarv and Treasurer, VIM. Henderson, G.
Fellowes, HlFlorence, J. S. Warren, c. J.
Leeds. John Armstrong, Writ Adams, l..
| Montgomery, J. Green, John b. HemphlH,
B. L. Hatch, ]. l.. Gubternator, j. NJ. How
| ell and c. NJ. Selnh, directors, in maintain
ing their pretensions to the office OF presl-
dent, secretary, treasurer, and directors OF
the New Orleans, Jackson and Great
Northern Railroad Company, OUT OF any
money or assets of said company, nor to
give the note, or draft, Or their obligation OF
| said company for that purpose.
2 Not 10 contract any debts OF any kind
whatever which shall pretend to blno or De
obligatory on said company.
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panv, except for debts due by it to this date,
and not prohibited in the first order.
4. Not to draw from the funds OF SAID
company or from its assets any money what
ever to pay the salary of G. T. Beauregard
or R S. Charles, or any part thereon, after
this date.
). That you, nor either Of you, shall do
any act whatever, directly or Indirectly, TO
defeat. hinder or delay the petitioners IRON
administering and directing the affairs OF
the New Orleans, Jackson and Great North
ern Railroad Company, as President and as
Directors thereof.
Provided, however, that the foregoing
order of Injunction shall not be so construed
as to prevent the said G. L. Beauregard, and
other persons herein epjoined. from keeping
said railroad in operation, and from convey
ing passengers and freight upon the same,
and from payirg the employees thereon, eX-
cept as herein before enjoined for the time
| being.
And you are so enoined and until the fur
Their order of this honorable court.
Witness the Honorable Henry G. Dibble,
Judge. of our said court, this twenty'seventh
day of April, in the year of our Lord one
Thousand eight hundred and seventy. and il
the niDety-fourth year of the independence
of the United States.
I'D. TAYLOR, Deputy Clerk.