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BOARD OF LIQUIDATION & c. v. LOUISIANA

Nos. 114, 119.

179 U.S. 622 (1901)

21 S.Ct. 263

45 L.Ed. 347

BOARD OF LIQUIDATION OF NEW ORLEANS v. LOUISIANA. DRAINAGE COMMISSION OF NEW ORLEANS v. WILDER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1901.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Branch K. Miller for the Board of Liquidation of the City Debt.

Mr. Chester J. Theard for the Drainage Company. Mr. Arthur McGuirk and Mr. Henry L. Lazarus were on his brief. Mr. William Wirt Howe and Mr. Walker B. Spencer filed a brief for same.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE, after making the foregoing statement of the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The motion to dismiss is without colorable support. The contention that as public bodies charged with the performance of ministerial duties, both the Board of Liquidation and the Drainage Commission had not the capacity to plead that the provisions of the state constitution impaired the obligations of contracts in violation of the Constitution of the United States...

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