New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16
THE COURTS.
Judicial Novelties.

Matters about the courts OF the parish Of
Orleans are gradually simmering down into
vacation business when the trial OF all
cases ION the merits" viii go over until
November, - time when the Presidential
question is settled Politics, in fact, make
up the only talk and gossip, hey Ond the mere
routine of practice to which every member
of the bar is used. The dull drOne of legal
arguments daily grows duller, the tedious
grind of the mill where few come out win
ners and hosts emerge losers, grows less
and less from day to day, and will soon
stop, and like one of our river palaces
will be laid up-its engines silent,
its berths and pigeon holes empty, the fur
niture stacked up and growing dusty, and
all signs of activity dying out in an at
mOsphere Of dO-nOthmgness. In the ses-
siOns which are now about to close there
has been nothing new or startling, save
such interpretations as the Supreme Court,
from Monday to Monday, gave, and the
license cases of the Sixth District Court,
which have become larger in volume than
any one would have supposed, realizing the
trite old adage that ''tall oaks from little
acorns grow" No one would have sus-
pected, year ago, that from a single de-
cisiOn of the Supreme Court would have
opened such drain from the city treasury,
which corporation safety requires TO be
stopped. just at this, the last end of the
session, comes the struggle OF the nimble ora
tors at the tax resisters' meeting in Odd
Fellows Hall to stave off executions for
nOn-payment of taxes until the courts open
again. No matter in what language the
pleas of ingenious counsel are disguised, this
is the alpha and omega of their purpose,
for it was announced by all the attorneys
who spoke at the original meeting such
means were available and the ball would
soon open. The main features of litigation
during the past session are boiled down to
these two: The suits of those who have
paid last years licenses for their restitu-
tiOn wherein all juries gave Judgment
against the city, and the resistance of tax
registers to the ordinary executions levied
by collectors. The last must neces-
sadly 90 over until the next
term they can not be settled now;
but those familiar with this kind OF resist
ance-it has been attempted before against
F. C. Mahan's writs-know they had to pay
in the end, together with attorneys fees
and costs. One has but to turn back the
leaves of the docket to prove this. 1t is
matter of record 1t is impossible, in run
ming account like this, to give any but the
salient points, which the eye will catch in
short glimpse, and, it is believed, these are
the only novel features in the way of prac-
tice; though even these are by no means
new, as they all grow from precedent not
outside of our own judiciary growing from
it IKE the aforesaid "t tall oak" There are
two ways of exhausting a corporation; one
is by cutting off supplies, the other by tap
ping the reservoir, and in both these Occu-
patiOns there is now considerable activity
by parties who are daily enTiching brokers
and other spectators in the city's honor
and credit
Eighth District Court.
Suit has been instituted in this court
against John COckrem, Administrator Of
improvements, by the st. Charles Street
Railroad Company, praying that writ of
mandamus issue, directing the said John
COekreIn, Administrator of improvements,
to furnish the petitioner, the St. Charles
Street Railroad Company, with the neces-
sary lines and levels required 10 enable
them to complete their road.
Petitioners aver that the said COckrem is
by law charged with the general superin-
tendence of all matters relating to the
streets, etc, and that it is his duty thereun-
der to give the necessary grade lines, or to
cause them to be given by the City Sur
veyOr, to enable them to complete their
road.
A rule nlsi in the suit of the State of Lou
isiana VS.. Jacob Strauss is fixed for trial
on Tuesday, the defendants to show cause
why execution should not be eDjOined of
the Judgment rendered in the case of Strauss
VS.. the State Treasurer. The defendant
has fled exceptions which will be tried on
the same day.
Strauss has taken a rule for contempt
against the treasurer for not executing the
above judgment, which rule is fixed for
Monday.
Judge Emerson officiates in all these
rules, in place of Judge Dibble, recused.