Case ID: mann-unrep-cas_1/html/0349-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "White, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 7502.
    The State ex rel. F. M. Daunoy vs. City of New Orleans.
    Where a maximum sum had been fixed for the expenditures of the Board of Metropolitan Police, and the estimate for a given year was less than that, but an officer of the Board nefaiaously issued certificates for expenditures exceeding the estimates and up to the maximum, the issue is illegal and nothing worth.
    The fact that these warrants or certificates, illegally issued, are in the hands of third persons who have come honestly by them, does not prevent any and all defences being opposed to them, since the certificates of indebtedness are not negotiable paper.
    Appeal from the Third District Court of New Orleans. Monroe, J.
    
      H. C. Miller for Garcia Appellant. Hmiton for Britton, and Flanagan for others.
   White, J.,

delivered the opinion affirming the judgment.