New Orleans v. Morris
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana
In equity. Heard on motion for injunction. The bill was filed to obtain an injunction forbidding the seizure and sale, on execution, of the market bazaar, the property of the city of New Orleans, to satisfy a judgment recovered against the city by [John A. Morris] the defendant to the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
BILLINGS. District Judge.
This case is before me on an application for an injunction. The hearing is upon the bill, the sworn answer, affidavits and a counter affidavit *112There seems to be no dispute about the facts.
On the 26th day of May, 1S75, the defendant in the bill obtained upon the law side of the court a judgment against the complainant for the sum of fifty-three thousand dollars, with interest. A pluries writ of fieri facias has issued upon this judgment at law, and under that writ there has been seized the interest of the city in a bazaar market, and the land on which the same stands.…
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