New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-05
THE COURTS.
Unitod stntes Circnit Court.

OuHLC@ SBAEES OAfCAA OOuELa
Harbor Police VS.. Ship Sancouver.-Libel
ants to show cause on the sixth instan1
WAY the commissioners report fixing tbs
value of the freight and cargo should not BIZ
approved.
The remaining case growing out of the
Bank of Louisiana in bankruptcy, that oil
1Eiltenberger and Norton, assigRees, VS.. C.
H- Slocomb, was decided yesterday by a
5ury in favor of defendant with costs. 1t Is
0f similar merits to the case against DR.
Mercer, also decided in favor of defendant
United States VS.. certain cigars.-Llbel
dismissed and the bond Cancelled.
Sixth District Court.
The docket Of this court for the present
week is made up mainly of suits against the
city for the recovery of license taxes, about
nae hundred of these cases being fixed for
trial between now and Saturday.
Eighth District Court.
The petition of the State of Louisiana and
of Antoine Dubuelet, State Treasurer, with
respect represents: That Jacob Strauss,
who resides in New Orleans, on the twenty
fifth April, 1879, instituted suit in this hon
cradle court as relator in a proceeding, by
way of mandamus, to compel your petit
toner, the State Treasurer aforesaid, to re-
e1gnize and pay certain alleged warrants
purpOrting to have been drawn at various
dates in the years 1868 and 1869, by George
on the State Treasurer, and there is an
naked to the petition fled in said suit or
proceeding a statement of the number, date
and amount of said alleged warrants, and
the total aggregate of the same is the sum
of Sl39,993 50; but your petitioner refers to
said suit or proceeding, numbered 1903 on
the docket OF this court, for a more partieu-
lar description of said warrants.
Your petitioner AYERS that on the thir-
teenth OF May, 1879, a judgment was rem
dered and signed by this honorable court,
in said suit or proceeding No. 1903, whereby
the mandamUs prayed for by the relatOr
was made peremptory, and your petitioner,
Antoine Dubuclet, was ordered and COM
nlanded to resign and pay said alleged war
rants mentioned in said suit, and said al
Legged warrants were decreed to be issued in
due form of law against proper appropria-
tons, and constituted valid obligations
against the State of Louisiana. and were en-
titled to be paid out of the State treasury.
Now, your petitioners aver that said al
legged warrants were and are fraudulent,
10Tged and void, and never were valid obi
CATIONS of the State, and were forged and
fraudulently issued by the said George M.
Wickliffe after he was removed from Office
az Auditor of Public Accounts, and were
never issued to any genuine creditor of the
State, nor Endorsed by any bona fde or
genuine payee; but the said warrants were
A4&WGUl6Ably cDUGOcbbu anu falsely lOERbu
and issued to the knowledge of the said re-
2&tor, Jacob Strauss.
Petitioners aver that prior to the rendi-
ton of the Judgment in said suit No. 1903,
EalatOr, Jacob&Strauss, in two separate
suits instituted against him, one by the |
Citizens Bank of Louisiana in the Fourth
District Court for the parish of Orleans,
No. 28.440, and the other by the State Ma
6Onal Bank In the Sixth District Court for
the parish of Orleans, No. 1913, has Judi
clally and under oath confessed that said
warrants, mentioned in said suit No. 1903,
were false, fraudulent and void, and yet as
DelatOr in said suit No. 1903 he has fraudu-
h9ntly procured Judgment recognizing |
8 aid warrants as genuine and valid.
Your petitioner AYERS that said Judgment |
IN said suit No. 1903 was procured on false |
documents and by suppression of truths |
and evidence, and collusiyeIy and fraudu- |
Iently, and therefore ought to be annulled |
Wherefore petitioners pray that said Jacob |
Strauss be cited, and after due proceedings |
said Judgment rendered in said suit No. |
1903, on the docket of this court. be an |
nailed and avoided, and that in the mean |
time, considering the annexed affidavit, the |
said relatOr, Strauss, be enjoined from en-
forcing or attempting to enforce said iudg- |
xnent, and from using said warrants of said !
Judgment as evidence of valid obligations of |
the State of Louisiana. Petitioner also |
prays for all general relief.
Semmes & Mott, Hays g. New, special |
attorneys appointed and designated by the
Governor.