Tax

Currie, Mayor, v. United States ex rel. Jacobs

129 U.S. 4432 L. Ed. 592·Supreme Court of the United States·1888

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Opinion

Currie, Mayor, v. United States ex rel. Jacobs. Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana. No. 107. [MAJORITY — Mr. Chief Justice Fuller.] Mr. Chief Justice Fuller. In this case a'peremptory writ of mandamus was awarded, commanding the levy of a special tax for the payment of the judgment rendered in favor of Jacobs and Smith, and against the .city- of Shreveport, just reversed in the preceding case, No. 106, for want of jurisdiction. The judgment must, therefore, he reversed, and the cause remanded, with directions ip dismiss the petition.