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Currie v. United States ex rel. Jacobs

129 U.S. 44 Court SCOTUS Docket No. 107 English

Delivered by Fuller C.J.

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

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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana.
No. 107.

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.