New Orleans v. Emsheimer
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. This was a motion to dismiss or affirm. It was submitted on the 10th of December, 1900. On the 17th of that month, the consideration was ordered to be postponed until the record should be printed, or so much thereof as would enable the court to act understandingly without referring to the transcript.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chief Justice: Emsheimer filed his bill against the city of New Orleans, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated, in the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, seeking to collect certain certificates of indebtedness issued by the Board of Metropolitan Police of New Orleans through an accounting; to which the city demurred on the grounds that the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction as such for want of proper averments of diverse citizenship; that necessary parties were lacking; and that the remedy was at law, and not in equity.
The Circuit Court held that the…
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