MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit against the board of liquidation of the State of Louisiana to compel it to fund certain bonds of the State held by the plaintiff, of August 1, 1864, and to exchange them for its consolidated bonds as provided in the act of the legislature known as No. 3, of 1874, at the rate of sixty per cent of their valuation. The petition of the plaintiff was filed in April, 1881, in the Civil District Court...
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