New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-31
THE COURTS.

The chief occupation of tie civil court
consists in filing suits which are increasing
in number and Importance as the wearis0m
vacation grows to . close. The Eighth Dis
trict Court has already resumed activ,
business. Judge Dibble bolds court to-day
What contests have taken place are con
fined to the hearing of motions, interlocu
tory orders and differences between land
lord and tenant, the latter class of trial
having been specially set down as the only
kind Of contests besides the orenining o1
successi0ns tried on the merits ad interim
The summer history Of the courts can moi
down into old shoes. AL tracks trod by
the legal profession are now beaten. The
DAY OF innovations. perplexing interpreta-
uons, Judicial cross-fring and enfilading.
mutual impris6nments for contempt and
midnight iDjunctions seems to have passed
| away forever, and the newest thing in the
way of law looks old (such is the prevailing
atnosphereJ tetore they have done being
| new.
| Suit was entered against the New Or
leans, Mobile and Texas Railroad Company
| in the Sixth District Court by Joseph Cole
man, for $3O2 10, in consequence of the
failure Of the defendants to deliver the
petitioners baggage in time. Petitioner
paid freight on his baggage to Louisville,
but on his arrival he failed to receive it
from the company. He recovered it on his
against the company expresses fares
through, meals, and thirty days time lost,
at the rate of twenty-five dollars a day.
Alexander Walker brings suit in the
same court against the city for professional
services rendered in behalf of the board of
drainage commissioners. to defeat the
machinations Of the Ship Island Canal
Company. The sum claimed of the city, to
which the imnunities, emolumente, rights,
mlsslOners were transferred. amounts to
$l7,OOO, and is owing by means of long
list OF suits instituted, i1junctions, manda-
mus and other judicial remedies obtained
by the petitioner for the board Of commits
sioners, who employed him.
Several suits were brought in the Eighth
District Court, among which is the PRAYER
OF . wife, owner Of certain immovable prop
erty, for grant OF authority to borrow the
sum of ten thousand dollars; the claim of
an attorney for his fee, and mandamus,
the last suit not being complete.
Among the suits brought. in the Fourth
District Court is that of John Haberle.
owner Of the B. L. Hodge, against Messrs.
Park, CeIlos 4 Bell, Of Texas, for $685. The
defendants, according to the petition. con-
tracted to ship ll3 head Of cattle by the
this city. 1T a given date, but failed, and
shipped them on the Era No. 9 instead.
Wherefore the petitioner claims the amount
he would have realized had the alleged con-
tract been complied with, and obtains q writ
of attachment on q bond.
Suit is brought in the Seventh District |
Court against Daniel Crowley, constable Of |
from the act Of the defendant, at the in
stance Of William Ahrens, Of seizing, carry |
ing OF and selling lot Of furniture belong
ing to the petitioner. 1t appears from the |
petition that the complainant left his house |
during the summer, and rented it to ten
ant tor the time he should be absent. |
During his scjourn away the tenant was
sued and petitioners furniture seized and
sold, notwithstanding his remonstrance.
In this court builder sues for work done
and material furnished to the amount of
f4S5. A milliner brings claim of $l64 Is
or millinery goods furnished from time to
line.
The New Orleans Mutual Insurance Asso-
'iatiOn brings suit to recover the face Of
hree promissory notes of $1,000 each, drawn
~ prominent business man and secured
y mortgage on four valuable lots of ground,
With improvements, in the Second District.
,nited States Commissiouer's Court-Be.
fore United States Commissioner j. b.
Weller.
Yesterday came up for examination the
ase Of certain parties charged with Ku-
Alux Outrages in Grant parish.
The arrest of the defendants was founded
n an affidavit made by William B. Philips,
arish judge Of Grant parish, who AYERS
hat on the twenty fifth of September, 1871,
he persons accused, Armstead O'Quin, c.
;. Nash, Alfred Shelby, Rufus X. Houston
nd Clermon Penn. did unlawfully conspire
D oppress, intimidate and iDjure affiant,
nth intent to prevent and hinder his free
xercise and enjoyment Of rights and privi-
'ges granted and secured to him by the !,
institution and laws of the United States.
, wit, the right to reside peacefully and
ndisturbed in the eaid parish, and the !
ght to hold Office therein, and the right of
'eedom Of speech, and because Of his being
verawed in such rights.
And further, affiant charges that the said
efendants, in carrying out the object of {
leir unlawful combination and conspiracy,
len and there felOniOusly committed the I
lime Of murder in and upon the body of
le DelOs w. White, resident Of the |
arish.
The affidavit concludes with PRAYER for il
e arrest of the parties. The prisoners +
ere brought before Commissioner Weller
twelve o'clock, yesterday. One of the ,
'isoners, Rufus X. Houston, was, on mo- :
on of United States District Attorney j. y
Beckwith, admitted to bail in bonds of a
.e hundred dollars, and the others having e
ked time to send for their witnesses, were =
mmitted to Jail, and the further examina-
N of the case postponed until the eleventh
November.