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NEW ORLEANS v. EMSHEIMER

No. 337.

181 U.S. 153 (1901)

21 S.Ct. 584

45 L.Ed. 794

NEW ORLEANS v. EMSHEIMER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 15, 1901.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Richard De Gray, in behalf of Mr. J.D. Rouse, and Mr. William Grant submitted in support of the motion.

Mr. Samuel L. Gilmore, Mr. Frank B. Thomas and Mr. Branch K. Miller submitted in opposition.

THE CHIEF JUSTICE: Emsheimer filed his bill against the city of New Orleans, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated, in the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, seeking to collect certain certificates of indebtedness issued by the Board of Metropolitan Police of New Orleans through an accounting; to which the city demurred on the grounds that the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction as such for want of proper averments of diverse citizenship; that...

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