Lewis v. Shreveport
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana
This suit was brought [by Charles Edward Lewis] to recover the amount of certain over-due interest coupons belonging to nine negotiable bonds for one thousand dollars each, issued by the defendant. The parties waived the intervention of a jury, and having agreed upon the facts, submitted the case to the court upon the law arising on the agreed facts.
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This suit was brought [by Charles Edward Lewis] to recover the amount of certain over-due interest coupons belonging to nine negotiable bonds for one thousand dollars each, issued by the defendant. The parties waived the intervention of a jury, and having agreed upon the facts, submitted the case to the court upon the law arising on the agreed facts. It appeared, from the agreement of the parties, that on April 27th, 1S71, an act was passed by the legislature of Louisiana, “to incorporate the City of Shreveport, to define its limits and provide for its better police and municipal government.”…
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The power of the city of Shreveport to issue the bonds in question is denied. The power, according to the claim of plaintiff, is to be found in section 17 of the city charter, which authorizes the council, when it deems it for the public interest to provide for the construction of a city hall, markets and other structures of public necessity and utility, and under certain circumstances, to issue bonds in payment thereof, and section 20, which says, “no ordinance for the purchase or sale of real estate shall be passed except by a majority of the council.” Under these…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Town of South Ottawa v. PerkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Harshman v. Bates CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Lewis v. City of ShreveportSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Dubuque Female College v. District TownshipSupreme Court of Iowa · 1862
- Hotchin v. KentMichigan Supreme Court · 1860
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