Tafaro's Investment Co. v. Division of Housing Improvement

REDMANN, Judge.

The City of New Orleans appeals from a judgment granting, “for the written reasons herein filed,” a preliminary injunction prohibiting the City and its agents, contractors, etc., “from disturbing plaintiff in the peaceful possession of its property and from making any further repairs thereto”.

The written reasons declare unconstitutional the ordinance under which the City had undertaken to repair plaintiff’s building.

That ordinance, Code of the City of New Orleans, Ord. No. 828, M.C.S., § 30-12(2), as last amended and reenacted by Ord. No. 4028, M.C.S., provides that where it is…