New Orleans v. Morris
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This is an Appeal from a decree, dismissing, on a plea of the defendants, the bill of the city of New Orleans.
The substance of the bill is that the defendants, having several judgments on the law side of the court below, had caused executions to be issued and levied upon shares of the stock of the New Orleans Water-Works Company; that the marshal had advertised and was about to sell them; that prior to March 31, 1877, the city.was the sole and absolute owner of the waterworks, now owned and held by the corporation known as the New Orleans Water-Works Company; and that on that day the…
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