Williams v. City of New Orleans

The plaintiff in this case seeks to render the city •of New Orleans liable to him in the sum of $1744, the amount of losses he alleges he sustained from the destruction and carrying off of property by a mob of disorderly and riotous persons, who, by violence, entered his dwelling on the nights of the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh of October, 1863.

The answer is a general denial. The plaintiff had judgment for twelve hundred dollars, with legal interest from judicial demand. The defendant appealed.

The claim of the plaintiff is predicated upon the statute of 1855, re-enacted in 1869, which…