Levy v. City of Shreveport

Plaintiffs allege that they are engaged in carrying on a private market, for which they hare a license from the State; and they had applied for a city license and had been refused by the municipal authorities.

They further state that S. J. Ward, mayor of said city, on divers occasions in the month of February, 1875, wantonly, improperly and without authority in law, caused to be issued warrants, under which they were arrested and fined by the mayor twenty-five dollars in each case ; that, in the prosecution of their said business, they were in the exercise of a legal right, and the mayor was…