New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-25
NEU-ORLE1NS.
4 FAMOUS LAWSUIT-PERSONAL AND NUM-
CIPAL AFFAIRS.
ley TyLEGRAPH 70 THE TRIBUNE.

Nrw-OrLEANs May 2i.-1he State Supreme
Court on Tuesday last affirmed the judgment OF a
lower court in favor Of the plaintiffs III the sut of
George T. Sears. j. H. OelesGy and Jules A. CasSaId
against the New. Orleans Gas Light Company. This
gives a new lease of lfe-fOr proceedings will no
doubt be carried furthcr-tO litigation which has
been pending for very many years and stands
among the famous causes in the records of the
courts of the country In $50 the State Legislature
gave a charter to the Crescent City Gas Light Com
pany which carried with il the exclusive privilege Of
making gas for this city rs soon a. the charter of the
New-Orlean5 Gas Light Company expired, which
event it was held, happened i'll 1870 The holders of
the charter of the Crescent City Company made no
move for some years and then Henry y. Attrill of
Baltimore appeared on the scene and bought mp a
majority OF tho stock of the Crescent City Company
and transferred the rights of that corporation to the
New-Orleans Gas Light Company for stock OF the
latter. Mcssrs Sears, Ogleeby and Cassard were
holders of Crescent City stock. and they claim they
were dclrauded of this stock and their interest IN
the stock paid for the charter OF tie Crescent City
Company by Attril and they sucd for 1t and for
damages The case has already been before the Sil-
prcnc Court of the United States and up to tins
pont results Of the litigation have been IN favor of
Aurl This decision of the state Supreme Court
Is however a serious blow to his cause The stock
in litigation has been and Is still held by the New
Orlcam, Gas Light Company i'll trust.
The CITY Council has at last decided on alatc-
mcnt of a nuisance of long standing. and swinging
signs will have TO 90. An ordinance has been
adopted ahOshing them after June |.
The management of the Worlds industrial and
Cotton Centennial Exposition on Tuesday captured
the New England Press Association. which passed
throuch .thlS clty on lis way home after t0ur of
fine Soutl took them down 10 The famous old town
| of Milncburg at Lake End and gave them a dinner
On Tuesday morning James A. Charbonnct,
! Minute Clerk of the United States Circuit Court,
died after an illness of several months. lie had
cupicd the position of minute clerk of the Circuit
! Court for nineteen NeaSs and was universally es-
/ tecmcd On Friday CharbOnnets assistant. a
! Young man named Henry j.. Michel while in the
! clerks Office and while making arrangements to
attend the funeral Of his chief. was seized with hem
! orrhago OF the lungs and in five minutes was a
! corpse.
Director General Burke, of the Worlds Industrial
! and Cotton Centennial Exposition. has returned to
! the city.
| Since tho poutcntiary closed it, doors on several
/ of the professional ship-buncrs that, TO some
/ profitable OCCUPATION Is nearly starved ont. The
best proof of the scarcity of leyce COnlagratlOns
was he sale a few DAYS ago of the fire tug Protector
/ for 81 4 600 the original cost being $50. 900 Con
structed all Of IRON her only real depreciation has
| been I'm loss 0hbusincss .rhis .cy OF shp-burning
WAS one of the worst that ever cursed this com
/ munty The Protector was bought by j.. d. Wood
! and for the legitimate tug business.