Carondelet Canal & Navigation Co. v. Tedesco

On Motion to Dismiss.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

The defendant and appellee charges:

1. That the matter in dispute herein does not exceed two thousand dollars.

2. That the constitutionality of no act of the legislature imposing any tax, toll, or impost whatever, is drawn in question in this case.

The suit was brought before a citjr court to recover $23.40 from defendant, for toll said tobe due the Carondelet Canal and Navigation Co., under Act. No. 160 of 1857.

The defendant excepted on tlie grounds that there is no such corporation in existence as the Carondelet Canal…