New Orleans Waterworks Co. v. Louisiana Sugar Refining Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. This was a petition, filed March 30, 1883, in the Civil District Court for the Parish of New Orleans, by the New.' Orleans Waterworks .Company against the Louisiana Sugar Refining Company and the City of New-Orleans, to restrain the laying of water pipes from the factory of the Louisiana Sugar Refining Company through the streets and thoroughfares of the city to the Mississippi River.- The allegations of the petition are…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. This was a petition, filed March 30, 1883, in the Civil District Court for the Parish of New Orleans, by the New.' Orleans Waterworks .Company against the Louisiana Sugar Refining Company and the City of New-Orleans, to restrain the laying of water pipes from the factory of the Louisiana Sugar Refining Company through the streets and thoroughfares of the city to the Mississippi River.- The allegations of the petition are in substance as follows: That the legislature.of Louisiana, by an act of April 1,1833, chartering the Commercial Bank of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The plaintiff in its original petition relied on a charter from the legislature of Louisiana, which granted to it the' exclusive privilege of supplying the city of New Orleans and its inhabitants with water from the Mississippi River, but provided that the city council should not be thereby prevented from granting to any person •“ contiguous to the river ” the privilege of laying pipes to the river for his own use. The only matter complained of by the plaintiff, as impairing the obligation of the contract contained in'its charter, was an ordinance of the city council, granting to the…
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