“ Ex parte Warmouth
SUR application of H. C. Warmouth, for a prohibition to the circuit judge for the district of Louisiana.
The application now made was filed December 10th, 1872, based on a bill (and the proceedings under it) which had been filed November 16th, 1872, on the equity side of the Circuit Court for the district of Louisiana, wherein one Kellogg was complainant, and Warmouth, Wharton, Hatch, Da Pont e, McEnery, and the New Orleans Republican Printing Company, defendants; all the parties being averred to be citizens of Louisiana. ”

“ That an injunction also issue to the New Orleans Republican Printing Company, controlling the publication of the New Orleans Republican, restraining it from publishing any notice, statement, or document relating to said election, and emanating from said board.
The bill further prayed that Warmouth deposit with the clerk sworn copies of all the papers relating to the said election, in order than they may be beyond his power of destruction. ”

“ On this bill restraining orders were issued as prayed for, November 17th, 1872, and subsequently, to wit, on 19th of November, 1872, process in contempt for disobeying such orders, and requiring the present petitioner to answer interrogatories as to what he had done as governor of Louisiana on the premises. ”