The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-07-28
DISTRICT COURT.
Much Business Transacted During
Closing Week of Term.

Vic aioti1SI tou1C HAS Ildu III Stdl ,,
sessions of the judicial body being
held daily up to and including yester-
day. A summarized report of the
business transacted is as follows:
Desire Landry vs.Santiago Truxillo 4;
motion to strike out motion for new
trial sustained.
Mrs. NJ. Simoneaux VS.. Leber-
muth & Israel Planting and Manu-
featuring Company, Limited; judg-
ment for plaintiff for $500, with legal
interest from March 10, 1917.
W. 3. Thompson Il Company VS.. E.
A. Booth and Sidney Nickens; dis
missed at plaintiffs cost.
Irene Hooper VS.. Camille Rome );
continued indefinitely.
Dawson Savario VS.. Louisiana Rail
way and Navigation Company; judg-
ment of lower court, in favor of plain
tiff, reversed and set aside, and judg-
ment rendered in favor of defend
ants and against plaintiff, rejecting
his demand; plaintiff to pay costs in
both courts; motion for new trial filed
and overruled.
Bank of Donaldsonville in liquida-
ton VS.. Mccall Bros. Planting and
Manufacturing Company; continued
indefinitely.
A. H. Flaspoller & Son VS.. Mrs.
Rosaline Mancusso; Judgment for
plaintiffs for $349.42, with legal in
terest from judicial demand until
paid, and all costs
Peoples Bank in liquidation VS..
Louis A. Landry; judgment for plain
tiffs for $500, with per cent interest
from Jan. 9, 1914.
Peoples Bank in liquidation vs..
Santiago Truxillo judgment for plain
tiffs for $1,000, with s per cent in
terest from Sept. 20, 1914.
Winfield Jumonville VS.. Charles
Guedry; judgments of ninth ward JUS
tice of the peace court, in favor of
plaintiff, reversed and set aside; in
junction in favor Of defendant and
against plaintiff maintained, and
plaintiffs suit dismissed as in nom
suit; plaintiff to pay costs in both
courts.
DR.. E. X. Sims VS.. John NJ Maher
and Nicholas Maher; evidence adj
duced and case continued for argu-
ment.
D. NJ. Davis & Company VS.. Henry
C. Braud; exception filed.
Levy, Loeb & Company VS.. Henry
C. Braud; exception filed.
Hugh H. Landry ct ais. VS.. Western
Union Telegraph Company; dismissed
at plaintiffs cost, on motion of coun-
sci for plaintiffs.
Empire Milling Company VS.. La
fourche Mercantile Company; excep-
ton to be submitted on briefs.
Calvin Russell VS.. Mrs. Blackwell
Russell; default entered
Luke B. Landry VS.. Peoples Bank
in liquidation; exception to be sub
mitted on briefs, which are to be filed
within five days; judge to render
opinion and judgment during vaca-
ton. with same effect as if done i'll
open court.
Home Mercantile Company, Lin
tied, VS.. Maurin Company, Limited /;
exceptions overruled; exception of no
cause of action filed, and fixed for
hearing on first day of next term of
court.
John w. Hanna VS.. Eunice Rabin
and Martha Pertuis; judgment rem
dered decreeing partition of prop
erty by licitation.
Ignace NJ Foret VS.. Cumberland
Telephone Company; evidence ad-
duced and agreement effected be-
tween counsel on both sides that case
be submitted on briefs, to be filed
within forty days; judge to render
opinion and judgment during vacation
or on first day of next session OF
court.
Mrs. Pomona Oubre VS.. Metropolis
tan Life Insurance Company; judg-
ment rendered ordering that sum OF
s2OO7.64 deposited with the court by
defendant company be paid over to
plaintiff, and that all costs incurred
subsequent to the depositing of said
amount be paid by intervenor, Mrs
Odille Bourgeois, widow of the
late Joseph E. Oubre; defendant
company, having deposited amount
due on policy sued on, is discharged
from any further liability in connec,
ton with said policy; motion for new
trial filed and overruled; plaintiff
granted appeal to court Of appeals OF
| first circuit, returnable at its next
sitting in Donaldsonville, suspensive
and devolutive, upon furnishing bone
in the sum of $50 each.
Western Union Telegraph Company
VS.. J. A. Dalferes ct ais. although {
part of the jury in this case was i'm
panelled during the term Of Judge
Workman, when the case was calico
for trial counsel for plaintiffs and de
PENDANTS announced that they waived
jury trial Judge Gilbert thereupor
recused himself, because Of the fac
that defendants had been prosecuted
by him while he was district attorney
that trial embodying the same fact:
to be presented in the civil trial
Judge Fred. A. Middleton, of the
twenty-sixth judicial district, was ap
/ pointed Judge ad hoe to try the case
| The district attorney filed an IN
formation charging Mrs. Ella Ricl
with having violated the Sunday law
and one against John Johnson, TO
carrying a concealed weapon. John
son was present in court, PLEADED
guilty, and was fined $3.50 or fou
months in jail.
At the conclusion of Fridays ses