State ex rel. Brittin v. City of New Orleans

*830'The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fenner, J.-

The principal suit, in which all the matters here concerned arise,-is indicated by the above title. It was a mandamus proceeding taken by certain creditors of the late Metropolitan Police Board, to compel the city of New Orleans to. pay the sum due them -out of a fund of $2600 alleged to have been collected and to be held ■by the city and legally applicable to payment of debts of the Board.

The plaintiff subsequently filed a supplemental petition, alleging, in substance, that the funds in the hands of the city were the pledge •of all the…