Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-05-03
NO.2.
AN ACT

Tor tne parish OF Orl"3ns 10 ueHiie anu
limit the jurisdiction, and to determine
| the powers thereof; to provide for the
transfer of Celt tain cases now depending
before certain other district cOurts for
said parish to the court hereby created !;
to authorize the Governor to appoint a
| judge and clerk for said court, and TO
| provide court room for said court to
| abolish the Seventh and Eighth District
Courts for the parish Of Orleans, and to
provide for the transfer of the records
| and suits in said Seventh and Eighth
District Courts TO other courts in said
parish.
Sectior I. Be 1t enacted by the Senate
ana House of Representatives of tho State
| of Louisiana is General Assembly conven-
ed, That there shall be, and Is hereby es-
| tablished, an additional district codrt for
the parish of Orleans which shall be known
and designated as the Superior district
court for the parish Of Orleans.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
the Superior District Court hereby created
snall have exclusive jurisdiction in and for
the parish of Orleans to Issue writs Of in
functions, mandamuses, otto warranto, and
to entertain all proceedings, and to try all
cases or actions in which the right to any
office, State, patishl or municipal is in any
I way involved. The said Superior District
Court shall also have exclusive original
jurisdiction in and for the parish of Or
leans, over all cases or proceedings in " ich
the State of Louisiana, the munic pal cor
poration of the city of New Orleans, the
Board of Metropolitan Police, the Board of
School Directors for the city of New Or
leans, or any corporation established by
act of the General Assembly, and domiciled
in the parish Of Orleans, shall be party,
or be interested, where the amount in dis.
pute 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 in
which the State, the city of New Orleans,
the Board of metropolitan Police, the Board
OF School Directors, or any such corpora
ton aforesaid shall be party OF DO inter-
ested, and shall have power to issue writs
of prohibition, injunction, mandamus and
oerticrari i'd aid of such appellate jrtrisdic-
ton provided nothing in this act shall by
construed to in any manner limit or effect
the jurisdiction and power of the Supreme
Court of the State of Louisiana to issue,
hear or determine any and all writs or or
ders which by the constitution or by the
existing laws, said court has authority to
ISSUE hear and determine; and provided
/ further that this act shall not be construed
to prevent the Second District Court for
| the parish Of Orleans from exercising all
tho powers granted by section five of act
No. = of the special session Of 1r7O, ap-
proved March Is, 1870 or the Third Dis
| trict Court for the parish of Orleans from
exercising the powers granted in section
seven of said act and provided still furth-
er, that this act shall not be held to deprive
any Judge OF court Of the power to issue
injunctions, to stay the execution of any
order Of seizure and sale, or any writ of
execution or possession granted by such
Judge or court, and shall not be held to de-
prive any Judge or court of the power to is
sue the writ of Injunction to stay the exc
cution or enforcement Of any Judgment
rendered OF order of sequestration, attach
nent or provisional seizure, made by such
judge of court. The power reserved to the
Second and Third District Courts to Issue
~rits Of mandamus and injunctions in aid
of their special jurisdiction, and the power
reserved to each of the district courts to is
sue writs OF injunction, to stay proceedings
| in said courts, as herein set forth, shall be
exclusive of the Superior District Court
| hetein created.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That
in any case in which an injunction shall is
sue from the Superior District Court here
be established, against any party or par
ties to any suit or proceeding, depending
before any other district court, of said par
ish, except the Probate Court, it shall be
the duty Of the judge and clerk Of such
court in which such suit or proceedings is
depending to Immediately transfer the re-
cords of such suit or proceeding to the said
Superior District Court, which shall be
vested with power to hear and determine
| a-Yf1b if ha haA haor, al
ly brought in said superior Court. I'm
mediately upon the passage of this act it
shall be the duty of the judges of the Third,
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth District Courts for
the parish of Orleans to transfer to Superior
District Court for the parish of Orleans ali
suits OF proceedings, the jurisdiction over
which is, by this law, vested in sail SUI
periOr District Court, The said Superior
Court for the parish of Orleans shall be
and is hereby vested with jurisdiction over
all such suits or proceedings SO to be
transferred, and with the same power to
hear and determine such suit and proceed
ings SO to be transferred, as if the same had
been originally brought in said Superior
District Court. All suits or proceedings
depending in the Seventh and Eighth Dis
trict Courts for the parish of Orleans, the
jurisdiction over which 10 by this law vest
ed in the Snperior District Court TO- the
parish of Orleans, whether determined or
not, are hereby transferred and declared to
be pending in said Superior District Court
from and after the passage of this act. The
said Superior District Court 10 hereby de-
clared to be and is hereby vested with
Jur; sdictiOn over all such suits and proceed
ings as II they had been originally brought
in said Superior District Court and shall
be proceeded with in said Superior District
Court. and tried and determined, and pro-
cess issued and executed therein and by
said court III the same manner as if such
suits or proceedings had been commenced
originally in said Superior District Court
Tor the parish of Orleans. The Judge of
Superior District Court for the parish of
orleans snail have power and authority, at
the Instance of any party interested, or at
the instance of the Attorney General Of the
State, TO direct writs of mandamus and in
junction to the clerks of said other district
Courts, 70 the parties to any anti or snits