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LOUISIANA EX REL. FOLSOM v. MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS

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109 U.S. 285 (1883)

3 S.Ct. 211

27 L.Ed. 936

STATE OF LOUISIANA ex rel. FOLSOM, v. MAYOR AND ADMINISTRATORS OF NEW ORLEANS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 19, 1883.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas J. Semmes for the plaintiffs in error.

Mr. W.F. Morris for the defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

The relators are the holders of two judgments against the city of New Orleans, one for $26,850, the other for $2,000. Both were recovered in the courts of Louisiana; the first in June, 1877, by the relators; the second in June, 1874, by parties who assigned it to them. Both judgments were for damages done to the property of the plaintiffs therein by a mob or riotous assemblage of people in the year 1873. A statute...

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