Morgan's Steamship Co. v. Louisiana Board of Health
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OR THE STATE OR LOUISIANA. This was a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OR THE STATE OR LOUISIANA. This was a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana. The plaintiff in error was plaintiff in the State court, and in the court of original jurisdiction obtained an injunction against the Board of Health prohibiting it from collecting from the plaintiffs the fee of. $30 and other fees allowed by Act 69 of the Legislature of Louisiana of 1882, for the examination which the quarantine laws of the State required in regard to all vessels passing the station. This decree was reversed, on appeal, by the Supreme Court of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The services for which these fees are to be collected are parts of a system of quarantine provided by the laws of Louisiana, for the protection of the State, and especially of New Orleans, an important commercial city, from infectious and contagious diseases which might be brought there by vessels coming through the Gulf of Mexico from all parts of the world, and up the Mississippi River to New Orleans.
This system of quarantine differs in no essential respect from similar systems in operation in all important seaports all over the world, where commerce and civilization prevail. The distance…
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