City of Gretna v. Brooklyn Land Co.

ODOM, Justice.

The city of Gretna has recently added a filtration plant to its waterworks system, at an expense of approximately $286,000. For the purpose of raising funds with which to construct this filtration plant, the city issued bonds for $210,000, maturing overea period of 35 years, and sold them to the United States government, which made an outright donation of $76,000.

The filtration plant is built on a square of ground which is some four or five blocks from the Mississippi river, which is the city’s only source of water supply. In order to obtain the water supply, it became necessary…