City of New Orleans v. Labatt

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

Defendant is appellant from a judgment condemning him to pay a city license of twenty-five dollars on his profession of attorney at law for the year 1877.

For answer, he alleges the illegality and uneonstitutionality of the license claimed.

*108The record contains no copy or mention of the ordinance levying such a license against attorneys at law; and it is a well-settled rule of jurisprudence that courts cannot take judicial cognizance of city ordinances, which are not promulgated like State laws, and the existence of which, in tenor and effect,…