Louisiana Bank v. Whitney
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO AND APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. This was a motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.’Chief Justice Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a proceeding begun May 22, 1883, by Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, then in life, to subject a certain sum of $40,000 on deposit in the Louisiana National Bank to the payment of a. judgment in her favor against the City of Npw Orleans. There is no dispute about the fact that the money in question was on deposit when the proceeding was begun and the bank served with process, but the Board of Liquidation of the City Debt has made claim to 'it as part of thé fund appropriated by Act No. 133 of 1880 to the payment and liquidation of the…
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