Louisiana v. Pilsbury
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana. This was a petition of the State of Louisiana, on the relation of the Southern Bank, a corporation created under its laws and doing business in New Orleans, to one of its District Courts, for a mandamus to compel the municipal authorities of that city to levy a special tax to pay certain coupons on outstanding bonds issued under an act of the State in 1872, and to purchase the bonds with any surplus remaining of the…
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Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana. This was a petition of the State of Louisiana, on the relation of the Southern Bank, a corporation created under its laws and doing business in New Orleans, to one of its District Courts, for a mandamus to compel the municipal authorities of that city to levy a special tax to pay certain coupons on outstanding bonds issued under an act of the State in 1872, and to purchase the bonds with any surplus remaining of the moneys ■ collected. The history of the issue of the bonds is as follows: The city of New Orleans was originally incorporated…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
As will be seen by the statement of. the case; the petition .for the mandamus proceeds upon the theory that the transac tion, authorized by the thirty-seventh section of the act of 1852, and the fifth section of the supplementary act of the same day, when consummated by the issue of the bonds of thé • city of New Orleans, and their exchange for the obligations of the old city, of the three municipalities, and of the city of Lafayette, constituted a contract between the city and the bondholders, the obligations of which could not be subsequently impaired by State legislation; and that the…
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