Legal Opinion

O'Keefe v. City of New Orleans

District Court, E.D. Louisiana

Decided April 21, 1921No. 16579PublishedCited by 14 opinions

In Equity. Suit by J. D. O’Keefe, receiver of the New Orleans Railway & Light Company, and others, against the City of New Orleans and others. On motions by complainants for preliminary injunction, and by defendants to dismiss bill. Motion to dismiss denied, and injunction granted.

1Opinion of the Court

HENRY D. CLAYTON, District Judge.

The court has taken jurisdiction of the subject-matter here involved in the case of the Empire Trust Company as trustee, complainant, against the New Orleans Railway & Light Company et al., defendants, No. 15960, in equity, pending in this court. This suit, styled in the caption hereof, was brought by direction of the court under order made April 15, 1921, and it is therefore ancillary to the main cause.

This cause came on for hearing on the application of the plaintiffs, the receiver and the others, for an interlocutory injunction as prayed for in the bill,…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  2. Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
  3. Home Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City of Los AngelesSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  4. Chicago & Alton Railroad v. TranbargerSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
  5. Columbus Railway, Power & Light Co. v. City of ColumbusSupreme Court of the United States · 1919

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Gibbs v. BuckSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
  2. State v. City of New OrleansSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1922
  3. Commodores Point Terminal Co. v. HudnallDistrict Court, S.D. Florida · 1922
  4. City & County of Denver v. StengerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1921
  5. Vitagraph, Inc. v. GrobaskiDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1931

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