Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Salomon v. Graham

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 15, 1871No. 3358PublishedCited by 3 opinions

APPEAL from the Eighth District Court, parish of Orleans.

1Opinion of the CourtLudeling, C. J.

The relators pray for a writ of mandamus to compel the State Auditor to issue a warrant to them for fiity thousand three hundred and tliirty-ouo dollars and forty-six cents. They sue as tlie assignees of the right of James 0. Nixon, under an act of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, passed on the first of March, 1871, and numbered thirty two.

The Auditor alledged, as cause for refusing to issue the warrant, that the act No. 32 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana is unconstitutional.

And the State of Louisiana, represented by the Attorney General, intervened in the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Groves v. SlaughterSupreme Court of the United States · 1841
  2. Elwood v. DeifendorfNew York Supreme Court · 1848
  3. Rodman v. MunsonNew York Supreme Court · 1852

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. State ex rel. Nevada Orphan Asylum v. HallockNevada Supreme Court · 1882
  2. State Ex Rel. Noe v. KnopLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1939
  3. Stingley v. Nichols, Shepard & Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1892

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