New Orleans v. Warner

Citations

• 180 U.S. 199
• 21 S. Ct. 353
• 45 L. Ed. 493
• 1901 U.S. LEXIS 1297

Syllabus

<p>The decree heretofore entered upon the mandate of this court, 175 U. S. 120, permitted of no distinction being made between drainage warrants issued for the purchase of the dredging plant of the Mexican Gulf Ship Canal Company, and such as were issued in the purchase of the franchises, and in settlement of the claim for damages urged by the Canal Company and Van Norden against the city of New Orleans.</p> <p>There was no error in permitting all parties holding drainage warrants of the same class, to come in and prove their claims without formal inter- • vention or special leave, though the validity of such warrants in the hands of their holders might be 'examined, except so far as such validity had been already settled by the decree.</p> <p>Warrants to the amount of twenty thousand dollars issued for drainage funds collected by the city and misapplied and appropriated to the general funds of the city were also properly allowed.</p>