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Currie, Mayor v. United States Ex Rel. Jacobs

129 U.S. 44, 9 S. Ct. 213, 32 L. Ed. 592, 1888 U.S. LEXIS 2042
CourtSupreme Court of the United States
DecidedJanuary 7, 1889
Docket107
StatusPublished

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Currie, Mayor v. United States Ex Rel. Jacobs, 129 U.S. 44, 9 S. Ct. 213, 32 L. Ed. 592, 1888 U.S. LEXIS 2042 (1889).

Opinion

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.

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