New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-19
THE COURTS.

In the Eighth district Court, rule for
contempt, taken by the Louisiana State
Lottery Company against J. I. ID. Lefevre.
came up for trial The rule was to show
cause why Lefevre should not be punished
for contempt, in refusing to obey an order
from this court in the case of the Louisiana
State Lottery Company VS.. the Alabama
Mutual Aid Association. restraining him
from selling Havana Lottery tickets IN the
city of New Orleans.
The court sentenced the defendant to pay
a fine of fifty dollars. and to be confined in
the Parish Prison for the space OF twenty
four hours.
The Judge, in his decision, said: ABOUT a
year ago, the defendant in this rule was
fined for disobeying a similar Injunction.
In this case, the contempt is clearly proven
and the plea that he merely bought the
tickets on commission Tor other parties is
of no avail. The former injunction was af-
firmed by the Supreme Court, and if this
defendant should be brought before ms
again on a similar charge. l will increase
the penalty to ten days imprisonment"
Suit has been entered in the Sixth District
Court by John Wharton against the Slaugh-
terhouse Company, in which damages to
the amount of 900 is claimed for this:
That the company selected place near
Algiers in which to carry on the business,
and gave the petitioner permission to erect
building on their premises to carry on the
business Of retail grocer, and he leased the
exclusive night for three years. The COM
pany, after petitioner had built the grocery
at cost Of $4,000, and laid in a stock
amounting to $500, abandoned its place of
operations, tore down its buildings, re-
moved them, and SO destroyed the value of
petitioners business to the amount of
100000.
All cases pending before the late John F.
DeaAe, register in bankruptcy, were yes
terday reassigned to G. S. Kellogg, register
in bankruptcy for the first congressional
district, by the United States District
Court, and the latter is ordered to take
and continue such proceedings therein as
are authorized by law.
The suit of j. K. Levy against Isaac Raas
was one where the object of the plaintiff, a
creditor, was to force the defendant into
bankruptcy. The trial yesterday in the
United States District Court resulted in the
jury finding verdict for the defendant,
and the proceedings were dismissed at the
cost of the plaintiff
The cause of Michael Gernon against the
New Orleans, jackson and Great Northern
Railroad Company, bankruptcy suit, was
set for trial on the twenty-tifth instant, in
the United States District Court.
The cause of the Good Intent TOwboat
Company against the steamship Juniata, in
volving question of damages from COLI
sion, is set for trial in this court on the thir-
tieth January next.
The new trial in the case of Latham
against Hickey in the United States Circuit
Court having been refused, plaintiffs, in
whose favor the Jury decided, are to show
cause on Monday, the twenty-second, why a
writ OF error, to operate as a supersedeas, in
other words, a suspensive appeal, should
not be allowed to the Supreme Court of the
United States.
In this court the following grand jurors
were duly impaneled and sworn in to in
quire into any violations of the "act to en-
force the provisions of the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of the United
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