McGowan v. City of New Orleans
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Case Certified from Court of Appeal, Parish of Orleans. Action by James McGowan against the city ■of New Orleans. Case certified by the Court of Appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The Court of Appeal for the parish of Orleans has certified to this ■court the following question:
“Is the assignment of unearned salary by a public officer against public policy, and, therefore, void?”
In a recent case (First Nat. Bank v. State [decided in 1903] 68 Neb. 482, 94 N. W. 633, 4 A. & E. Ann. Cas. 423) the Supreme Court of Nebraska had occasion to say that it would be difficult to find a proposition more thoroughly established in the Reports than that the assignment of the 'salary or fees of a public officer, to be earned in the future, is contrary to public policy and void.
There…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Hubgh v. New Orleans & Carrollton RailroadSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1851
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- Bangs v. DunnCalifornia Supreme Court · 1884
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- Hava v. CafieroSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1925
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