United States v. New Orleans
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. This was a petition presented in April, 1876, by Morris Ranger, the relator, for a writ of mandamus to compel the city of New Orleans to pay three judgments.
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. This was a petition presented in April, 1876, by Morris Ranger, the relator, for a writ of mandamus to compel the city of New Orleans to pay three judgments. The petition alleges that he had recovered them in the Circuit Court of the United States for an amount exceeding in the aggregate $59,000 against the city, on its bonds and coupons issued under the provisions of acts of the legislature of Louisiana, passed on the 15th of March, 1854, and designated as Nos. 108 and 109; that executions had been issued upon the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mk. Justice Field,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
The judge of the Circuit Court accompanied the judgment with an opinion giving the reasons of his decision, which were substantially those stated in the answer of the city: that the statute authorizing the issue of the bonds, upon which the judgments were recovered, made no provision for levying a tax to pay the principal, but intended that it should be paid out of the stock of the railroad company and its revenues; and that the proceeds from the sale of the stock had been already expended by the predecessors of the…
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