Case Name: Currie, Mayor, v. United States ex rel. Jacobs
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1888-10
Citations: 129 U.S. 44
Docket Number: No. 107
Parties: Currie, Mayor, v. United States ex rel. Jacobs.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 129
Pages: 44–44

Head Matter:
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.

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.