Legal Opinion
Monsour v. City of Shreveport
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided February 5, 1940No. 35575PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ODOM, Justice.
Plaintiffs own property and pay taxes in the City of Shreveport. They ruled the City and the Dual Parking Meter Company of Oklahoma to show cause why the City should not be restrained from enforcing Ordinance No. 40 of 1939, and why a certain contract entered into by the City under said ordinance with the parking meter company for the purchase and installation of parking meters in certain areas of the City should not be decreed null and void. Plaintiffs attacked Ordinance No. 40 on the grounds, among others, that its adoption was ultra vires of the powers of the City, that it…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Harper v. City of Wichita FallsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1937
- Ex Parte HarrisonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1938
- City of Shreveport v. BristerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1939
- In Re Opinion to the House of RepresentativesSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1939
3Cited by9 opinions
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- City of Louisville v. Louisville Automobile Club, Inc.Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1942
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