New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-05
THE COURTS.

Eighth District Court.
The Slaughterhouse matter was again be-
Sore this court yesterday upon the argu-
ueut for and against the rule nisi, to show
cause why an injunction should not issue to
restrain the company from interfering with
the ferry privileges.
Ymportant Suits to Recover State Taxes
Paid by Commission Merchants.
In the Eighth District Court, in the case
of the State of Louisiana ex rel. Blake
more Woodbridge & Co. VS.. james Ora
nam, Auditor, it is alleged that REALTORS
were lately trading under the firm name
aforesaid, and paid to the State of Louis
lana the sum of $ll4l TO- for and on &C
count of the tax on gross sales and re-
.ceipts, imposed and collected under and by
virtue of the third section of an act en-
titled can act to provide for increasing the
revenue of the State and to raise means to
paw the interest on the State debt" APP
proved April 4, 1865, passed by the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana; that
the whole of said tax was upon gross sales
made by REALTORS of commodities, consist
ing of tobacco, cotton and Western pro-
duce, which we're consigned to REALTORS by
citizens of the United States residing be-
yond the limits OF the State of Louisiana
and that said sales were made for the
benefit and account of said non-residents,
owners of the said commodities in the form
in which they were prepared for market be.
yond the limits of the State of Louisiana,
by their said constituents, and for COM
mission of two and half per cent on the
gross amount of the several sales made by
them. lL
That REALTORS produce and annex thereto
and make part hereof the four receipts for
said taxes paid by them. That al the last
session of the General Assembly an act was
passed, entitled ian act to reimburse GER
tain taxes illegally collected under act No.
S." approved April 4, 1865, by which it was
enacted "that all taxes which were col
lected by the State of Louisiana, under the
third section of an act entitled AN act to
sprovidSfor increasing the revenue of the
State and raise means to pay the interest on
the State debt approved April a, 1865, shall
be and are hereby refunded to the parties
who paid the same, or to their proper repre-
sentatives, and the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts be and is hereby authorized and re-
.quired to issue to said parties certificates to
the amounts paid by them, which shall be
received by all State tax collectors in pay
ment of the general fund tax.
That the REALTORS have presented the sad
receipts to the Auditor, with an affidavit
proving that the amounts thereof were paid
under the said third section of the act of
1865, and the said certificates provided for
by the act of 1871 were demanded of and
refused to said REALTORS by said Auditor,
whereby REALTORS are greatly injured.
Wherefore they pray that the said Audi
tor be ordered and directed to issue certif-
cate for the said sum of Sl411 20, in favor
of REALTORS, to be receivable by all State tax
collectors in payment of the general fund
tax and for general costs.
Order.-Let a writ of nandamus issue
as within prayed for, and according to law,
directed to James Graham, State Auditor,
commanding him to comply with the prayer
of the within petition, or show cause to the
contrary, Wednesday, May l6, 1871, at ten
O'Clock.
HENRY c. DIBBLE, Judge.
Messrs Hays g. New have also fled a De
tition on behalfof large number of brokers
and others, praying for writ of mRndamus
upon the State Auditor to compel him to is
sue certificates to the amount of $50 600 for
taxes on sales paid to the State previous to
the passage of the act of 1871 the points
set up in which are similar to those involved
in the above petition of Blakemore, Wool
dridge & Co. A rule nisi was also ordered
in this case, which will come up also on
Monday, the tenth instant
Sixth District Court.
suit has been instituted by the descend |
ants of Pierre A. Gnillotte and wife, against |
Samuel Hastings, to recover the lot of |
ground corner of Magazine and Felicity |
streets.
Plaintiffs allege that said lot forms part |
of tract of land purchased by said p A. |
GuiHotte, from the IUrsuline nuns, by act |
passed before N. Broutin, notary public in |
the city of New Orleans, on the ninth day |
of December, 1911. That Samuel Hastings |
has taken and holds possession of said |
property without any legal right thereto. |
They pray that he be decreed to deliver up |
the property to them, and pay them $500 |
per annum for the fruits and revenues |
thereof.
The question in controversy in this case |
involves the title to a large amount of prop
erty on and near Magazine street, between |
FelicityERoad and st. Mary streets, and can
only be divided by ascertaining the true
and correct boundary line between the pur-
chases made by Guillotte g. Gainnee.
from the Ursuline nuns, which has long been
IN litigation in the courts.
The Books of the Second Drainage Conn
mission.
Counsel for the Board of Second Drain
age Commissioners have taken a rule upon
John Lockwood and G. +. Brott in the
Sixth District Court, to show cause. on the
eighth instant, why they shall not be pun
ished for contempt, in resisting the order of
said court upon writ OF sequestratiOn
directing the Sheriff to take into his poses
bAOu tHt-DOOhS Vi inc OcCOuu drainage
Commissioners of the parishes of Orleans
and jefferson. Counsel allege that said
books are necessary to the administration
of important public Offices 1t is rumored
that the said books are concealed some
where about the basement of the Custom
house building.
Judgment in Damage SHIT Against the
Chattanooga Railroad.
In this case the plaintiff sued the com
pany TO recover five hundred dollars in
damages for refusing to stop their train for
him at Lookout station, although he sig
nailed them so to do
In consequence of this action he alleged
that he suffered exposure and great hard
ship, being obliged to be out nearly all
night in an open boat. The court gave
Judgment for plaintiff in the sum of fifty
dollars
A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
Unfortunate Interference of Paterfa-