(DOWNLOAD) "Louisiana v. New Orleans" by United States Supreme Court # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Louisiana v. New Orleans
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1880
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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Mr. D. C. Labatt for the plaintiff in error. This case comes here from the Supreme Court of Louisiana. On the 1st of May, 1874, the relator recovered in one of the courts of that State against the city of New Orleans, two judgments, amounting in the aggregate to $170,000, besides costs. Upon these judgments executions were issued and returned unsatisfied, after demand upon the officers of the city to point out property belonging to it subject to seizure, to be levied upon to satisfy the same. The relator thereupon presented a petition to the Third District Court of the Parish of Orleans, setting forth these facts and averring that it was the duty of the mayor and administrators of the city to provide for the payment of the judgments by levying and collecting a tax for that purpose; but that they refused to do this; and that he was unable to satisfy the judgments by the ordinary process of execution. He therefore prayed for an order upon the mayor and administrators to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue to compel them to levy and collect a tax to satisfy the judgments.