THE COURTS
Times Picayune Newspaper - July 8, 1855
Submitted by: Jan Strickland by Carolyn Tregre

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First District Court - Judge Robertson - Grand Jury Presentment
- The Grand Jury yesterday made a special report in which they
presented the First District lock-up as an intolerable
nuisance.  The court ordered an injunction to issue restraining
the keeper of this lock-up from receiving or confining in the
said lock-up any prisoners until the further order of the
court.

Cyrille Labiche, f.m.c, vs. State of Louisiana.  This was a
suite by the owner for the freedom of two slaves, Adele and
Marie Louise, under the new law which requires actions for the
emancipation of slaves to be brought against the State, and to
be conducted contradictorily with it before a jury.

Verdict granting freedom to the slaves with the privilege of
remaining in the State.

Sixth District Court - Judge Cotton - Mandamus - Coroner
Forshee yesterday took a rule on the City Controller to show
cause why a peremptory mandamus should not issue commanding him
to audit the Coroner's bills for holding inquests at the rate
of $17 per inquest, notwithstanding the late ordinance of the
city reducing the rate of charges allowed by the Coroner, on
the ground that this ordinance was illegal.

The court dismissed the rule, holding that the Coroner's remedy
was by direct action and not by rule.