Louisiana Ex Rel. Folsom v. Mayor and Administrators of New Orleans
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. Mcmdamus prayed for in the Supreme Court of Louisiana to the city authorities of New Orleans, to compel them to levy taxes and pay a judgment recovered by the relator. The prayer being denied, the decision was brought here on error for review, on the ground of repugnancy to the Constitution And laws of the United States. The facts appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The relators are the holders of two judgments against the city of New Orleans, one for $26,850, the other for $2,000. Both were recovered in the courts of Louisiana; the first in June, 1877, by the relators; the second in June, 1874, by parties who assigned it to them. Both judgments were for damages done to the property of the plaintiffs therein by a mob or riotous assemblage of people in the year 1873. A statute of the State made municipal corporations liable for damages thus caused within their limits. Rev. Stats, of La., 1870, sect. 2453.
The judgments were duly registered in the office of…
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