City of New Orleans v. Vergnole
Supreme Court of Louisiana
.A.PPEAL from the First City Court of New Orleans. Skinner, J. Art. 206 has no retroactive effect; its terms are of the future. It does not affect licenses imposed prior to the Constitution going into effect, January 1st, 1880. The licenses sued for were imposed prior to January 1st, 1880, in obedience to a number of mandatory and unambiguous special laws governing the City of Mew Orleans. Acts of 1870, Ex.
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.A.PPEAL from the First City Court of New Orleans. Skinner, J. Art. 206 has no retroactive effect; its terms are of the future. It does not affect licenses imposed prior to the Constitution going into effect, January 1st, 1880. The licenses sued for were imposed prior to January 1st, 1880, in obedience to a number of mandatory and unambiguous special laws governing the City of Mew Orleans. Acts of 1870, Ex. Ses., Mo. 7, Secs. 18 and 19, et seq,*, Acts 1872, Mo. 73; Acts 1879, Mo. 38. Laws are never to bo taken as retroactive unless, by the rigor of their language, such in tent is clearly…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Todd, J.
The defendant is appellant from a judgment of the First City Court of New Orleans, which condemns him to pay a license tax of one hundred dollars, assessed under the License Ordinance of the City of New Orleans, No. 6253, passed on the 22d of December, 1879.
By agreement of counsel, in the record, “ the matter in controversy ” is limited to “ the question of the constitutionality and legality of the license imposed by said ordinance.”
The payment of this license is resisted on the ground, that by article 206 of the present Constitution, State…
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