Grasser Contracting Co. v. City of New Orleans

This is an appeal from a judgment maintaining an exception of no cause of action.

The petition alleges that plaintiff, a paving contractor, entered into an agreement with the City of New Orleans in 1914 to install sub-surface drainage, preparatory to paving Lowerline Street. That the work was done and accepted by the City and certificates issued against abutting property holders, one of whom, Mr. F. Rivers Richardson, refused to pay his proportion of the cost, on the ground that the proceedings leading up to the paving were radically null in that 52 per cent of the interested property holders…