Case Name: STATE ex rel. HUBERT v. MAYOR, ETC., OF CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1910-02-14
Citations: 125 La. 523
Docket Number: No. 16,402
Parties: STATE ex rel. HUBERT v. MAYOR, ETC., OF CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 125
Pages: 523–523

Head Matter:
(51 South. 517.)
No. 16,402.
STATE ex rel. HUBERT v. MAYOR, ETC., OF CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
(Feb. 14, 1910.)
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; John St. Paul, Judge.
Action by the State, on the relation of L. A. Hubert, as receiver, against the Mayor and Council of the City of New Orleans. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
Charles Louque and Rouse & Grant, for appellant. I. D. Moore, City Atty. (Frank B. Thomas, of counsel), for appellee.

Opinion:
PROVOSTY, J.
In this matter, considering the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States, rendered November 29, 1909, in the matter of State of Louisiana ex rel. Louis A. Hubert, Receiver, Plaintiff in Error, v. Mayor and Council of the City of New Orleans, 215 U. S. 170, 30 Sup. Ct. 40, 54 L. Ed. —, it is ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the mandamus herein prayed for be and the same is hereby made peremptory, and that the city of New Orleans, through its mayor, Martin Behrman, and its council, be and is hereby ordered to levy, collect, and pay over to the relator herein, L. A. Hubert, receiver of the Board of Metropolitan Police, a special tax of one mill on the assessed values of the city of New Orleans, both real and personal, and to pay over the avails of said tax to the said L. A. Hubert, receiver, to an amount necessary to satisfy the judgment heretofore rendered by this court in favor of the said L. A. Hubert, receiver, in the sum of $123,475.57, with 5 per cent, per annum interest thereon from April 6, 1904, until paid, and the costs of the suit wherein said judgment was rendered, being record No. 73,173 of the docket of this court, as well as the costs of the present mandamus suit, No. 16,402 of the docket of this court, including the costs of the same suit on writ of error to this court from the Supreme Court of the United States.