New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-16
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL or THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
THE COURTS.

THE COOAIS.
Eighth District Court An Injunction
Against the SlaughterhOuse-The At
torney General Seeks TO Have the
Charter Forfeited.
Attorney General Belden has instituted
suit IN the Eighth District Court, Judge
Dibble. pr,sying for an injunction to re-
strain the Slaughterhouse Company,
through its president. Charles Cavaroc;
from receiving, landing, stabllng and
sIaughtering at the Cavaroc Slaughter
house, on the left bank OF the river, any
animals intended for food in the markets of
the marshes of Orleans, Jefferson and st.
Bernard. OF from allowing any other per-
son or persons from doing the same during
the Dendency of the injunctionj and
further, that they be restrained from doing
or allowing the acts above recited except
at the grand slaughterhouse on the west
bank of the Missippippi, below the present
depot of the New Orleans, OpelOusas and
Great Western Railroad Company.
Judgment is also asked, after due pro-
ceeding, decreeing that the Slaughterhouse
Company, defendants herein, have forfeited
all their rights and powers as directors IN
the Crescent City Live Stock Landing and
Slaughterhouse Company
The Attorney General, in closing his petit
ton, reserves the right at any time during
the tendency of this suit to ask that the
said defendants be enjOined from exercising
any rights pertaining to the directors OF the
company and to ask the appointment of
directors in their stead, as required BY law,
that the ends of the law may be carried out.
In opening his petition the Attorney Cen
eral recites the act creating the Crescent
= CITY Live Stock Landing and Slaughter
house Company and that act created a cor
poratiOn as an agent of the State OF LOUISE
ana to carry into effect and enforce said
law to protect the health of the city OF New
hot sold
ated with the names of William ID. Sanger,
l. H. Pierson, j. r. Irwin, +. j. Pratt, l.. l.
PackwoOd, N. w. Tronis, II. V. Barringer, L.
p. LANCER, w. S. Mudgett, o. ID. Russell, J.
ViOsea, S. p. Griffin, l.. H. Cr1ppen, Wll-
liam McKenna, A. j. Oliver and +. T.
Clark, and their successors IN ONCE; that
said corporation is purely and simply an
agent OF the State of Louisiana, created
solely and exclusively for the purpose of
carving into effect and enforcing the law as
above stated, and that as agent aforesaid
the powers and duties of said corporation
are strictly restricted to the provisions OF
said act
That by the said act the said company are
required to build grand slaughter house
for the parishes of st. Bernard, Jefferson
and Orleans, and that they did so in the
wear 1869, on the west bank of the river, as
above set forth.
That after the locating of said grand
unlawful for any person, OF persons, indi-
vidually or collectively, or under corporate
name, to establish a place tor slaughtering
animals elsewhere than at the place named,
That the faithful execution of this health
law, requiring the slaughtering of animals
in the aforesaid slaughterhOuse, intended
for food, as aforesaid, is required by law of
sand company agent Of the State Of Louis
lana. ~
That on or about the fifteenth of March,
the said company above named or their
successors, with +. j. Pratt as president,
resigned and withdrew as directors, and
that on the same day Charles CavarOc,
William Pagan, Joseph Gitzwlger, j. +.
AycOck, William NJ. Maybe, b. BeaufOy,
Louis Rueh, Paul Esteban and j. P. Ro-
eiede were elected by the stockholders as
their successors, and that Charles Cavaroc
was elected president, and now claims to be
president.
That the present board of directors, in
their capacity as aforesaid, became the
agent of the State of Louisiana for the en-
forcement of the provisions of the said
health law alone, under which they have
their corporate existence That by law they
are to see that no animals are slaughtered
for food for the parishes named except at
the grand slaughterhOus6 above mentioned
Petitioner represents that the said Charles
CaVarOe, and the board of directors asso-
stabling and Strengthening animals intended
for food in the parishes named, at the
CavarOc place, on the east side of the river,
in violation of the aforesaid act passed to
protect the health Of the city OF New Or
leans,
The said landing and Strengthening is in
direct violation OF the law requiring all
animals to be landed and slaughtered at the
grand slaughtefhBase.
nha4 eaid onpnorati0n PaOraSnntad DV
Charles Cavaroc, have no more right to
violate said health law in the manner above
stated than though they were not directors.
That having violated the law and having
been constituted by law as agents of the
State to see to the faithful execution of said
health law, by their acts they have forfeited
said agency, and are no longer directors and
ineOrroratorsin the Crescent City Live Stock
Landing and Slaughterhouse Company.
And petitioner further says that the court
may fully understand the extent of the acts
constituting this fragrant and studied viola
ton Of the law, petitioner represents these
same persons, before they became directors,
were enioined and prohibited from landing
and Strengthening at the CavarOe place.
They are not only, therefore, 30 doing in
violation of the external provisions of the
law, but also in contempt of said Injunction
and the DEGREES of cur courts. That having
been enioined, the fact that they have be
no right to violate the law and the ordera
and DEGREES of court.
And. as aforesaid, the directors Of said
corporation being the agents of the State
to enforce said health law, and having viO-
1Ated said law and the orders and DEGREES
III cur courts, fhtS have broken their faith
with the Gtate Of Louisiana, have forfeited
flfeir ageney and thrown upon said State
the necessity of resaming, in manner
regulated BY law, the control Of powers
deieef q Il ~ eaid agent. as
Thai diTed&l u b SO sued only b.
virtue i3lfnfg eenss to be such up0i
tie viei ! ale \ i4t SOnfded in them
That fafiH8 1 feNdsd the said direct
oFs. 5rt6 6ir 81 3 at, to desist frOI
violnnnr sls3V al as herein CON
plaii ls a. 1--we paid no after
fttu VI $50 ,sfi jlAaAi,,a
OH. =, ~ "a "a, ordered to sho,
cause On MdndAY, the tWenty-f0urth Apri
nc ten o'ei1ak "A. H., why an injunotio
riseuld not Issue Is Fithin prayed for an
HENRY 8. DIBBLE. Judge.
New Orleans, L., April IA, 1871.
Vhs Fosscasisn 81 zho MurnziAo Stree
Mnlip@Nd--Aa Order ~ Judge DID
Jndaa libble yesterday ISSUED the 70
in4 order IL connection with the aboYs
Qhtd railroad
Is itA1elafe ordered that the Eeeei7e
3aAH M Hisgaan, appQintnd July 10 l&s
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