New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-21
COURT RECORD,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1874.
United states Cfrcui. Court.

The following bill has been filed:
American Cotton Tie Company w. James
| G. Clark.-PlaiEtiffs allege ownership of
the alligator tie, invented BY Robert Sweet,
patented by him and reissued to Charles
Johnston, plaintiffs transterror; that the
case OF johnson vs.. Fassman decides the
| case in their favor, but that defendant is
still engaged in the manufacture of said
tie. Prayer for an injunction and damages
superior District Court.
The following petition was filed:
Crescent City Gaslight Company VS.. New
Orleans Gaslight COmpany.-Petition al
leges incorporation by act of April 90. 1870;
that the act OF April /, 1885, incorporating
the New Orleans Gaslight and Banking
Company, gave privilege of banking and
sole right to make and vend gas; that this
the act of March 10, 1916, annulled the
banking privilege and limited that Of gas
making to April |, 1875; that acts of April
20, 1870, and July 10, 1S73 confer this privi-
lege on plaintiffs from said date for fifty
years; that the area was extended by act of
March l, 1860, and extended the time of
the New Orleans Gaslight Company to
April !, 1895; that this act is unconstitu-
tlonal and>viOlated articles us and ll6 Of
the constitution of 1852; that plaintiffs, to
avail themselves Of the privilege granted,
must expend 81 ,00G, ,O0O; that if its works
are not completed by April l, 1875, it will
suffer irreparable loss; that the asser-
tion of the New Orleans Gaslight
Company, that its charter does not expire
on that date is SANDER on plaintiffs title;
will impair the value of its charter and
pretended extension be declared null, and
said company forbidden from asserting it's
prtension, and the cloud from plaintiffs
title removed, it will suffer greater damages;
that writ OF injunction is necessary to
prevent the company from asserting any
right to make and vend gas after April /,
1873. Therefore petitioners pray for cita-
tiOn OF said company; that it may be de-
creed to have no right to make gas after
said date; that plaintiffs' right nav be
recognized that defendants may be re-
strained from making gas after said date.
and aor costs and general relief.
First Districp Court.
NoLLE fROsEQUJ ENTERED.
State rs. Joseph Lapena.-Larceny.
TRUE BILLS.
State vs. A. c. Billings-Murier.
State VS.. Thomas Cranner.-Assaul: anu
battery.
ARRA1GNED.
State ve. Louis Breuder.-Larceny. Plea
of not guilty.
oIotO 'e. AcuIy OuIhc.~isUUUtTV. 1!ed
OF not guilty.
State IS. Mary Francis e. al.-Burglary
and larceny. Mary Francis and Lena
Moore, guilty OF Larceny. Eu.alie Moore,
not guilty.
State vs.. Peter McWilliams-Man.
slaughter. Guilty, with recommendation
to Aercy.
eEHTENcrp.
State ve. J. J. Tanner..-Assa'. with a
dangerous weapon. One day in Parish
Prison.
State vs. Edward Garnier.-Assaul: and
battery. Five dollars fine.
Second District Court.
SUGGESTIONS Of James Ross and Thomas
Cannon opened.
Fourth District CoArt.
John Montanne Us. B. Saloy.-Oamages
$1,000. Plaintiff was born in Africa. and
never was slave. In 1854 he purchased
his daughter Flora and her mother of their
owner, David Goldman. To emancipate
Flora he sent her to Ohio, and alleges her
emancipation there. She shortly after re-
turned. Defendant alleges mortgage, for
money loaned, from Montanne, on real estate
and slaves. Plaintiff alleges want Of con-
sideration. In 1862 Saloy seized the prop
erty mortgaged and sold II, together with |
Flora, who was imprisoned by the sheriff in |
the Parish Prison. Provost Marshal Kins- I
man released her in September, 1862. This |
suit was instituted in December following.
The plaintiff proved an expenditure Of $435, |
and the jury gave verdict for that SUN.