Lutz v. City of New Orleans
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
In Equity. Bill by Felix Lutz and others against the City of New Orleans. Application for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
FOSTER, District Judge.
This is a suit to enjoin the city of New Orleans from putting into operation certain provisions of Ordinance 2346 adopted by the commission council April 27, 1915, for the purpose of regulating what are popularly known as “jitneys,” the term being used to designate an automobile carrying passengers for five cent fares, very much the same as the ancient omnibus.
The material facts, set out in the bill and either admitted by the answer or not rebutted, are these: Plaintiffs are each the owner of an automobile personally operated by him in the transportation of passengers…
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