Union Ice & Coal Co. v. Town of Ruston
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fourth District Court, Parish of Lincplu; J. B. Holstead, Judge. Suit by the Union Ice & Coal Company against the Town of Ruston, to. annul an ordinance providing for the purchase, installation, and operation of a municipal ice plant. From a .judgment denying such relief, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvo Sty, J.
The town council of the town of Ruston having adopted an ordinance providing for the purchase and installation of an ice manufacturing plant, to be operated in connection with its water and electric light plant for the production of ice to be sold to tbe inhabitants of the town, the plaintiff company, and ice-manufacturing company, which had theretofore been furnishing ice to the town, brought this suit, in its quality of a taxpayer, to annul the ordinance, and enjoin its execution.
The ordinance is said by plaintiff to contravene articles 46, 58, 227, 263, 270, and 287 of the state…
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