Police Jury of Jefferson v. United States ex rel. Fisk
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. On the 14th of February, 1881, Josiah Fisk, a judgment creditor of the parish of Jefferson, Left Bank, presented his ijetition for a mandamus in the district court for the parish of Jefferson, asking for a levy of a special tax to pay his judgments, reciting in said petition the following: Judgment for $150, with 5 per cent, interest from April 9, 1872; clerk’s and sheriff’s costs,…
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. On the 14th of February, 1881, Josiah Fisk, a judgment creditor of the parish of Jefferson, Left Bank, presented his ijetition for a mandamus in the district court for the parish of Jefferson, asking for a levy of a special tax to pay his judgments, reciting in said petition the following: Judgment for $150, with 5 per cent, interest from April 9, 1872; clerk’s and sheriff’s costs, $112.70. Judgment for $1,833.37, with 5 per cent, interest from April 20, 1874; clerk’s and sheriff’s costs, $16. Judgment…
1Opinion of the Court
PARDEE, Circuit Judge,
(after stating the facts as above.) The assignments of error present two questions, the disposition of which will dispose of the case. The police jury of the parish of Jefferson, appellant, contended in the court below that it was a different legal being from the police jury of the parish of Jefferson, Left Bank, and, as shown by the third bill of exceptions in the record, on the trial of the case, requested the court to charge the jury “that the present police jury of the ‘parish of Jefferson, defendant in this cause, is a different legal being from the police jury of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- United States v. New OrleansSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- State ex rel. Fisk v. Police JurySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1887
- Fisk v. Police JurySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1886
- United States ex rel. Watson v. Port of MobileUnited States Circuit Court · 1882
- State ex rel. Fisk v. Police JurySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1886