Smith v. City of New Orleans

The plaintiff brings this suit to recover from tlie defendant $600, being the amount of thirty bills or notes of the currency known as “city money,” with interest from judicial demand. The defendant answers:

First — That the notes sued on are bills of credit, which the city, by the Constitution of the United States, was prohibited from issuing.

Second — The making and circulating these notes or bills of credit were in express violation of certain acts of the General Assembly of Louisiana, and therefore void.

The defendant offers another objection, which he contends must prove fatal to the…