Case Name: Robert P. Smith v. The City of New Orleans
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1872-01
Citations: 24 La. Ann. 20
Docket Number: No. 2482
Parties: Robert P. Smith v. The City of New Orleans.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 20–20

Head Matter:
No. 2482
Robert P. Smith v. The City of New Orleans.
If tlie record of appeal contains no note of tlie evidence offered in tho court below, the . appellate court will presume that the court a qua proceeded upon proper evidence.
Tti reference.to the question of bills of credit, the doctrine announced in tho caso of Smith v. City of New Orleans, 23 An., page 5, is affirmed by this decision.
Appeal from the Fifth District Court, parish of Orleans. Beaumont, J.
Alexander Walker, for plaintiff and appellee. J. R. Beckwith, City Attorney, for defendant.

Opinion:
Taliaferro, J.
The plaintiff brings this suit to recover from tlie defendant $600, being the amount of thirty bills or notes of the currency known as "city money," with interest from judicial demand. The defendant answers:
First — That the notes sued on are bills of credit, which the city, by the Constitution of the United States, was prohibited from issuing.
Second — The making and circulating these notes or bills of credit were in express violation of certain acts of the General Assembly of Louisiana, and therefore void.
The defendant offers another objection, which he contends must prove fatal to the plaintiff's case, and that is that the notes sued upon were not offered in evidence on the trial, and that the record does not show that any evidence was introduced.
The plaintiff' had judgment, and the defendant appealed.
This court has held that where it finds no note of evidence in the record, it will presume tho court a qua proceeded upon proper evidence. 23 An., page —. This case presents tho same issues as that of the same plaintiff v. The City of New Orleans, 23 An., page 5.
For tho reasons assigned for the decree in that case, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment of the district court be affirmed, with costs.