New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-27
NO. =.


fer OF certain cases now depending befOr
certain other district courts for said pal
ish to the court hereby created; to at
| Gb0riZe the Governor to appoint q iudg
and clerk for said court, and to provid
! a court room for said court; TO abolish tn
| Seventh and Eighth District Courts 70
tho parish of Orleans, and to provide 70
the transfer Of the records and suits il
said Seventh and Eighth District Court
to other courts in said parish.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senat.
aRd House of Representatives of the State o
Louisiana in General Assembly convened
| That there shGii be, and is hereby estab
| iished, an additional district court for thC
parish of Orleans, which shall be known anC
| designated as the Superior District Cour1
for the parish of Orleans.
bBc. 9. Be it further enacted. eto.. Thai
the Superior District Court hereby created
shali have exclusive jurisdiction in and foi
the parish of Orleans, to issue writs of in
functions, mandamuses, quo warrantO, and
TO entertain ali proceedings, and to try all
cases or actions in which the right to any
office, State, parish or municipal, is in any
way involved. The said Superior District
Coart shall also have exclusive original
jurisdiction in and for the parish of Orleans.
over all cases or proceedings in which the
State Of Louisiana, the municipal corpora
of metropolitan Police, the Board of School
Directors for the city Of New Orleans, or
any CORPORATION established by act OF the
General Assembly, and domiCiled in the
parish of Orleans, shall be party, or be in
teFested, where the amount in dispute shall
exceed the sum Of one hundred dollars, and
said court shall have appellate jurisdiction
from the justices of the peace in the parish
of Orleans in all cases i'll which the State,
h n tor M NnEHy fhrlp SIn &
tropolitan Police, the Board Of School Di-
rectOrs, or any such corporation afore-
said shall be party or be interested,
and shall have power to Issue writs
Of prohibition, Injunction, mandamus
and cortiorari in aid of such appel
late jurisdiction; provided, that nothing in
this act shall be construed to in any man
ner limit or affect the Jurisdiction and
power of the Supreme Court of the
state Of Louisiana to issue, hear and
determine any and all writs or orders
which by the constitution or by the
existing laws said court has authority
to issue, hear and determine: and pro
Vided further that this act shall not be
construed to prevent the Second District
Court for the parish of Orleans from exer-
cistng- all the powers granted by section
i've of act No. of the special session of
1870, approved March is, 1870, or the Third
District Court for the parish of Orleans
from exercising the powers granted IN sec
dOn seven of said act; and provided still
further, that this act shall not be held to
deprive any judge or court of the power to
issue ID!unotlOn5 to stay the execution of
any order of seizure and sale, or any
writ OF execution or possession granted
0y such judge OF court, and shall not
DO held to deprive any auch judge or
court OF the power to issue the writ Of in |
junction to stay the execution or enforce
nent OF aLy Judgment rendered or order Of
attachment or provisional |
seizure, made By such judge or court. The |
bower reserved to the Second and Third |
District Courts to issue writs Of nandamus |
md Injunction in aid of their special iuris- |
iIctlon, and tie power reserved to each Of |
hc district courts to issue writs of iniunc- |
ION TO stay proceedings in said courts, as
leFein set forth. shall be exclusive Of the |
superior District Court herein created.
SEC, 3, BE it further enacted, etc, That
n any case in which an injunction shall
5sue from the Superior District Court here
y established, against any party or parties
any suit or proceeding, depending before
ny other district court for said parish. ex-
ept tue Probate Court, it shall be the duty
t the Juage and clerk of such court in
yhiCh such suit or proceedings is depending
o Immediately transfer the record Of
|
aid Superior District Court, which shall
vested with power to hear and de-
Fmine such cause as if the same had
cen originally brought in said Superior
district Court. Immediately upon the |
lssage OF this act it shall be the duty Of
nc Judges of the Third, Fourth, Fifth and |
Kth District Courts for the parish of Or
ans to transfer to the Superior District
ourt for the parish of Orleans all suits or
fbn
: this law, vested in said Superior District
'urt. The said Superior Court for the
,rIsh of Orleans shall be and ID hereby
sted with jurisdiction over all such suits or
oceedlngs 80 to be transferred, and with
@ anne power to hear and determine
Oh suits and proceedings so to be
tnsterred, as it the same had been origi-
lily brought in said Superior District
urt. All suits or proceedings depending L
the Seventh and Eighth District Courts
the parish of Orleans, the jurisdiction
er which is by this law vested in the Su.
nor District Court for the parish of Or c
u.s. whether determined or not, are Il
reby transferred and declared to be q
ndlng in said Superior District Court | Il
IN and after the passage of this act. The |
d Superior District Court is hereby de- | A
red to be and is hereby vested with iuris A
ton over all such suits and proceedings | II
II they had been originally brought in said | II
perior District Court, and shall be pro II
ded with in said Superior District Court, NJ
tried and determined, and process N
led and executed therein and by said te
IrG IN the same manner as if such suits
proceedings had been commenced orig IL
tty I'D said Superior District Court for In
parish of Orleans. The judge of said pl
1eEior District Court for the parish of al
cans shall have power and authority, at Ia
instance OF any party interested, or at eX
instance of the Attorney General of the IN
te, to direct writs of mandamus and in LEI
ctlon TO the clerks of said other district sa
rtSv to the parties to any suit or an
8 and their attorneys, or to tic
person or persons interfering, in all pr
SO III which it may be necessary or expe-
1t TO protect the jurisdiction of said Su-
or District Cour as conferred by this
IN case any SUIT, or proceeding over LII
Gu the said Superior District Court shall
exclusive jurisdiction, shall at any
hereafter be depending in any other
rlcI court Tor the parish of Orleans, and Ao
Judge Of said court shall neglect, or re-
TO allow an order of transfer of such
e, or proceeding, to the said Superior
tlcE Court, then and in that case either
70 such suit, or proceeding, may cause
e filed in the said Superior District
It certified or sworn copies of the cita-
or citations, petition and pIeadings in
SUIT or proceedings; and the said Su- 70
T Distrot Court shall proceed to hear '
determine such suit or proceeding az Il
We of sueh other court the same in all
aots as II such suit or proceeding had Y
originally instituted or commenced in mo
Superior District Court did
Z. Z. be it further enacted, etc, That Gig
US OF the General ASSEMBLE regulating be
factloe in the district courts of the | wal
n OF Orleans. except so far as they NAV rest
ISIS Ste WIN this act or contrary to cha
" Tn I'D Il Z