The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-02-28
DISTRICT COURT.

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DISTRICT COURT.
Fourth and Last Week of the February
Term-Ali but One Of the Important
Criminal Cases Continued.
The District Court resumed it's sessions
last Monday, in accordance with the
adjournment Of Saturday. In addition to
District Attorny Gaudet and the members
of the local bar, B. r. Forman, a leading.
New Orleans attorney, was in attendance,
and it looked as If a big weeks work would
be done, but the expectation was not re-
allied.
The jury list for the fourth week was called
and the following excused: Clement
| Dupuy for ignorance of the English Ian
guage; Felix Leblanc, steamboatman, alb
sent from the parish; 0. A. Bullion, mer-
chant and Police Juror, by consent. James
Lee and Thos. Marchand were absent The
former subsequently reported, and a
bench warrant was issued for Marchand.
The trial of the Rosenfeld- McC rory
case was resumed on Monday, and was
followed by the case of the State Us. Au-
guste Dugas. When this was concluded
the suit OF Leeds & Co. Us. Israel & Co. was
taken up, and IA 1t was supposed this trial
would occupy the remainder of the week,
all the fourth-w week jurors not serving on
the jury empanneled to try this controversy
we're discharged and the criminal cases
fixed for Thursday and Friday were con-
tined indefinitely. Shortly afterward tel
egram came from Leeds & Co. to their at
torney, authorizing compromise of the
pending litigation, hence the case on trial
was continued and court adjourned to term
in course.
We append synopsis of business dis
posed Of during the past week:
CIVIL MATTERS.
Lehman, Abraham g. Co. Us. Mrs, Ali
ma Gaudin ct ais; judgment in favor of
plaintiffs for $6813 80, with eight per cent
interest and costs of suit and recognition
of special mortgage with pact de non alien
ando from April 4, 1884, on the Gaudin
plantation and adjoining tracts of land;
Sheriff ordered to seize and sell the prop
erty to pay plaintiffs claims BY privilege
and preference.
A. Rosenfield rs. A. McCrory ct ais;
trial concluded; submitted for decision at
chambers, Judgment to be entered as if rem
dered on the last day of the term, by con-
sent Of parties, and legal delays to be al
lowed for appeal after rendition of judQ-
mont.
Leeds & Co. rs. Mrs. M. Israel & Co.,
civil jury case; Mry empanneled and trial
proceeding when attorney for plaintiffs an
nounced the receipt of a telegram author
izing him to effect a compromise on the
basis offered by defendants, and on his mo-
ton the jury was discharged and the case
continued.
Duncan F. Kennef Us. Mrs. Ann Braud;
Judgment in favor of plaintiff for $517,
with legal interest from Feb. 20, 1885.
Mrs. NJ. Israel & Go. rY. Mrs. j. A.
Braud. Jr.; judgment in favor of plaintiff |
for 1878 81 with legal interest from Judi
cial demand. o
Mrs. NJ. Israel & Co. us. HenryF. Braud; |
judgment in favor of plaintiffs for slO7 10,
with legal interest from judicial demand.
A. Rougeau rs. A. Richard; judgment in
favor of plaintiffs for $432 62, with eight
per cent interest from March l., 1880.
Valsin Mirre ct ais rs. Mrs. Odile Mirre |
ct ais, for partition; ordered on joint mo-
ton of plaintiffs and defendants that the
partition made by E. n. Pugh, Notary Pub
lie, on Dec. &c, 1884, be approved, ratified
and homologated.
dortense Meiancon, ua., Us. Jos. Denis |
Iemplet, mar; judgment in favor of plain
tilt dlssolving the bonds of matrimony
heretofore existing between the parties,
defendant to pay costs of suit.
Continued Neutrality-suspicious. Gardere
Us. T. A. Jones, Sheriff, and j. B. Quimby,
Involving the validity of tax sale; Leon
Godchaux Us. the Clerk and Recorder ct ais.
to show cause why the mort
gage of the Consolidated Association of
Planters of Louisiana, recorded against
plaintiffs Souvenir plantation, should not
3e erased.
CRIMINAL MATTERS. |
Auguste Davis, charged with murder;
ried by jury and found guilty of man
slaughter; sentence. $4,000 fine and twenty
ears imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Charles Oberksmp, Jr., charged with en-
'ezzlement, failed to appear and his bond
vas forfeited; Chas Oberkamp, ST., surety.
Judgments of forfeiture we're also en-
cred up in the cases of John Henderson, G.
/. Davis, surety; Willie LeBray, VIM. Ken
"a, surety; VIM. Henderson, Louis Butler,
urety.
Continued indeinitely-Josephine Rod
iguez ct als., petit larceny; Charles Will
ANS, shooting with intent to commit muir
or; Alex Stewart, inficting wound less
IAN mayhem; Rudolph Landman, murder:
'ilson Thomas, assault and battery; DE.
ones, embezzlement.
Dismissed by nolle proseqti - John
ohnson, Caroline Owen, Leroy Jenkins,
lex. Starks, J. +. Landry. Nat Steel. F.
'alter, Cornelius Hayes, Frank Chsnire.
en- Curtis, Adau Cantey. Della Thomnsou /