New Orleans, M. & C. R. v. City of New Orleans

Billings, D. J.

This is a cause which was commenced in the “superior district court” of the parish of Orleans, and has been removed from that court to this. In this court, from its nature, it stands as a chancery suit.

Plaintiff alleges that in the year 1874 the city authorities (the defendants) sent a large force to beat down the walls of a freight depot belonging to this defendant company. As an incident of the suit, the complainants obtained an injunction .in the “superior district court,” penclente lite, and the object of this suit is to perpetuate that injunction. The mischief is of such a…