LOUISIANA EX REL. NEW ORLEANS GAS LIGHT COMPANY v. NEW ORLEANS


108 U.S. 568 (1883)

LOUISIANA ex rel. NEW ORLEANS GAS LIGHT COMPANY v. CITY COUNCIL OF NEW ORLEANS & Another.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 7th, 1883.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas J. Semmes for relators and plaintiffs in error.

Mr. C.N. Buck for defendants in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

We have no jurisdiction in this case. No title, right, privilege, or immunity set up or claimed by the relator under the Constitution of the United States has been denied him by the judgment of the court below. The prayer of the petition for mandamus was, among other things, that in order to secure a sufficient fund to provide for the payment of certain judgments in favor of the relator against the city of...

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