Cooley v. Broad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Spencer, J.

On the twenty-sixth of.June, 1875, the defendants, Broad, Dowling, Trousdale, Quaterreaux, Yerlander, and Powers, owning among them, several steamboats running in the Opelousas trade, formed an association whereby they agreed that they would put into said association their respective boats. The objects of the association were declared to be “ to co-operate together in building up and maintaining the trade, etc., known as the ‘ Opelousas trade,’ by running their respective boats between New Orleans and Washington, Louisiana, and carrying…