Millaudon v. First Municipality of New Orleans

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

On an examination of this case we came to the conclusion at once that we could not determine it. Those charged with the government of this municipality and with the management of its important concerns, are not the parties in interest in this suit; it is the tax-paying inhabitants who are to be affected by its result. "Were the former alone concerned, we should be justified in leaving them to the consequences of their own acts; but we cannot consent to adjudicate finally on the rights of the latter, in a case presented to us as this is.

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