M. Brown & Co. v. Duplessis

The principal question in this case is, whether the corporation of

the city of New Orleans has the power to sell the right of way for twenty years for the establishment of a railroad in the streets of the city ; the cars to be drawn by horses or mules, and to be run as often, per day or nig'ht, as the contractors may deem proper, but not at greater intervals than every ten minutes, from daylight until ten o’clock P. M., and every thirty minutes from ten o’clock until midnight.

The Comptroller, in pursuance of the authority vested in him by an ordinance of the Common Council of New Orleans,…