Legal Opinion
Higginbotham v. City of Baton Rouge
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 17, 1939No. 462PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
' The City of Baton Rouge, in March, 1-935, pursuant to Act No. 1 of the First Extraordinary Session of .1935 of the legislature of Louisiana, adopted an ordinance declar ing that the City was without authority to retain appellant, Powers Higginbotham, as Superintendent of Public Parks and Streets, and that his employment in that capacity was terminated. Contending that he had been employed for a term continuing until November, 1936, and that the legislation abovementioned constituted an impairment of the obligation of his contract in violation of § 10 of Article I of the Constitution of the…
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