Supreme Court of the United States January 31, 1898, 188 (Benjamin v. New Orleans)

Mr. Chikp Justice Fuller

delivered the opinion of the coart.

This was a bill filed by Henry

W.

Benjamin, “ an alien and a subject of the Kingdom of Great Britain,” on February 9, 1S91, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, “ against the city of New Orleans, a municipal corporation, created by the laws of the State of Louisiana and a citizen of said