Wolff v. New Orleans
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Dis triet of Louisiana.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
In March, 1876, the relator, Rebecca W. Wolff, recovered a judgment in the Circuit Court of the-United States for the District of Louisiana, against the city of New Orleans, for the sum of §13,000. Execution was issued upon it and returned unsatisfied. She thereupon caused the judgment to be registered, under the act of the legislature of the State of 1870, known as Act No. 5, of the extra session of that year, to the provisions of which we shall hereafter refer; and then called upon'the mayor and administrators of the city to pay it out of the contingent fund of the corporation, or, if it…
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