State ex rel. Board of Liquidation v. City of New Orleans

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

This is a proceeding by mandamus to compel the City of New Orleans to turn over to the relator, 927 shares which it owns of the stoclc of the New Orleans Water-works Company and also the dividends accrued thereon.

The resistance of the city rests on two grounds :

1. That the shares are not affected by section 5 of Act 133, of 1880, which directs the turning over and transfer to said Board all the property of the city, real and personal, not dedicated to public use.

2. That the same section 5 does not repeal section 14 of Act 33, of 1877,…