City of New Orleans ex rel. Nicholson & Co. v. Stewart

Tho defendant has appealed from a judgment condemning him to pay the cost of paving tho street in front of his property, pursuant to a contract with the city authorities.

*711The defence is that a majority of the property owners on said street, by petition, presented in due time to the Common Council, opposed said improvement, the effect of which was to reject the application of the same, and no further proceedings in relation thereto could be had by the Council, unless a new application was filed and published, according to law; that, by improper influences, the President of the New Orleans,…