New Orleans v. Warner
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. This was a bill in equity filed. November 26, 1894, in the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana by John G. Warner, a citizen of the State of New York, on behalf of himself and all other parties holding obligations of the same nature and kind as himself, to charge the city of New Orleans as the debtor of specific taxes, averred to have been levied by lawful authority, for the payment of certain…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. This was a bill in equity filed. November 26, 1894, in the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana by John G. Warner, a citizen of the State of New York, on behalf of himself and all other parties holding obligations of the same nature and kind as himself, to charge the city of New Orleans as the debtor of specific taxes, averred to have been levied by lawful authority, for the payment of certain warrants issued for the purchase of a drainage plant and franchise, the collection of which was made the duty of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
Nineteen assignments of error were filed in this case, but we shall only notice such as were pressed upon our attention in the oral arguments or in the briefs of counsel.
1. That this suit was, at the institution thereof, prescribed by the statutes of Louisiana. In this connection reference is made to Articles 3540, 3544 and 3547 of the Civil Code.
Article 3540 provides that “actions on bills of exchange, notes payable to order or bearer, except bank notes, those on all effects negotiable or transferable by indorsement or delivery, and those on all promissory notes, whether negotiable or…
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