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154 U.S. 555

Docket No. 83.

Gaines v. Lizardi

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued January 30, February 3 and 4, 1868.

Decided April 6, 1868.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1868-04-06

<p>APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA.</p>

2 counsel of record

Relies on Gaines v. New Orleans

Reversed and remanded · 8–0 · Decided 1868-04-06

¶1APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA.

¶2Reversed on the authority of Gaines v. New Orleans, 6 Wall. 642.

¶3Mr. C. Cushing for appellant.

¶4Mr. James McConnell and Mr. Miles Taylor for appellees.

¶5Mr. Justice Davis

¶6delivered the opinion of the court.

¶7This case in all its essential features is like the case of the same complainant against the city of New Orleans, just decided, and the opinion delivered in that case is also decisive of this suit.

¶8The decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana is reversed, and this cause is remanded to that court with directions to enter a decree for the complainant in conformity with the opinion in the case of Myra Clark Gaines v. The City of New Orleans and others, 6 Wall. 642.

¶9Reversed.

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