Year: 1873

1870. approved March IS, 1870, or the
Third District Court for the parish Of
Orleans from exercising the powers
granted in section seven OF said act;
and provided. still further, that this
act shall not be held 70 deprive anv
judge or court of the power TO issue
injunctiOns to stay the execution of
any orders Of seizure and sale. or any
writ Of execution or possession grant
ed by such judge or court, and shall
not be held TO deprive any such Judge
or court of power tn issue the writs of
injunction TO stay the execution or en-
forcement of any judgment rendered
or order of sequestration, attachment
or provisional seizure, made by such
judge or court. The power reserved
TO the Second and Third District
Courts TO issue writs of mandamus and
injunction IN aid of their special iuris-
diCtton, and the power reserved to each
of the district courts TO issue writs of
injunction tn stay proceeding in said
courts, rs herein set forth, shall be ex-
elusive Of the Superior District Court
herein created.


Sec. ,. Be it further enacted. etc.
That in any case in which an iniunc-
tion shall issue from the Superior
District Court hereby established.
against any party or parties to any
suit or proceeding, depending before
any other district court for said parish,
except the Probate Court, it shall be
the duty Of the judge and clerk of such
court in which such suit or proceeding
is depending to Immediately transfer
the record Of such suit or proceeding
to the said Superior District Court,
which shall be vested with power to
hear and determine such cause as if
the same had been originally brought
in said Superior District Court. I'm
mediately upon the passage of this act
it shall be the duty Of the iudges of
the Third, FJutfh, Fifth and Sixth
District Courts for The parish of Or
leans to transfer to the Superior Dis
trict Court OF the parish OF Orleans
all suits or proceedings, the iurisdic-
tion over which is by this law vested
in said Superior District Court. The
said Superior District Court for the
parish of Orleans shall be and is here
by vested with jurisdiction over all
such suits or proceedings so TO be
transferred, and with the same power
to hear and determine such suits and
proceedings 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 District Courts
for the parish of Orleans, the iurisdic-
tion over which is by this law vested
in the Superior District Court for the
| parish of Orleans, whether determined
or not, are hereby transferred and
declared to be pending in said Supe-
riOr District Court from and after the
passage of this act. The SAID Supe-
rior District Court is hereby declared
to be and is hereby vested with juris-
diction over all such suits and pro-
ceedings as If they had been origin ally
brought in said Superior District
Court, and shall be proceeded with in
said Superior District Court, and tried
and determined, and process issued
and executed therein, and by said court
in the same manner as if such suits or
proceedings had been commenced
originally in said Superior District
Court for the parish OF Orleans. The
judge of said Superior District Court
for tho parish of Orleans shall have
power and authority, at the instance
of any party interested, or at the in
stance of the Attorney General of the
State, to direct writs of mandamus and
Injunction to the clerks of said other
district courts, to the parties to any
suit or suits and their attorneys, or to
any person or persons interfering, in
! all cases in which it may be necessasy
or expedient to protect the jurisdiction
! of said Superior District Court, as
conferred by this act. In case any
suit or proceeding over which the said
.Superiur District court shall have ex-
elusive jurisdiction, shall at any time
hereafter be depending in any other
district court for the parish of Orleans,
and the Judge OF said court shall neg
lect or refuse to allow an order oftrans-
fer Of such cause or proceeding to the
said Superior District Court, then and
in that case either party to such suit
or proceeding may cause to be fled in
the said Superior District Court certi-
fed or sworn copies of the citation or
citations, petition and pleading in such
suit or proceedings; and the said Su-
perior District Court shall proceed to
hear and determine such suit or pro-
ceeding exclusive of such other court,
the same in all respects as if such suit
or proceeding had been originally in
stituted or commenced in such SuPe-
riOr District Court.


Sec. (. Be it further enacted etc.


That all acts of the General Assembly


regulating the practice in the district
courts of tho parish of Orleans, except


so far as they may be inconsistent


with this act, or contrary to its proyi-


sions. shall apply toand bind the Judge
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