Hiestand v. City of New Orleans

It is a fallacy to call the resolution of the Common Council of the city of New Orleans of the 23d of May, 1856, a contract; and the repeal of that resolution, a violation of a contract, which subjects the corporation to damages.

The city of New Orleans is a political corporation, as observed in argument by one of the counsel of plaintiff — a political corporation recognized by the Constitution of the State, to which the Constitution has imparted a portion of the executive and judicial functions of the government, and to which the Legislature has communicated many legislative functions; among…