Legal Opinion

Crescent City Live-Stock Landing & Slaughter-House Co. v. Police Jury

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided December 15, 1880No. 7998PublishedCited by 9 opinions

APPEAL from the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, parish of Jefferson. Hahn, J. First — To determine whether an appeal will lie from an order dissolving an injunction on bond, under article 307 C. P., the Court is compelled to consider whether the order be erroneous ; if it be, the appeal lies. .'Second — The order allowing the inj unction in this case to be set aside on bond was erroneous : First.

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APPEAL from the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, parish of Jefferson. Hahn, J. First — To determine whether an appeal will lie from an order dissolving an injunction on bond, under article 307 C. P., the Court is compelled to consider whether the order be erroneous ; if it be, the appeal lies. .'Second — The order allowing the inj unction in this case to be set aside on bond was erroneous : First. Because plaintiff had alleged and sworn that the act prohibited would work it irreparable injury. Second. The facts, as set forth in the petition, show that the act prohibited would work…

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The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Todd, J.

The plaintiff enjoined the defendant from granting permission to any one to establish a slaughter-house in the parish of Jefferson, alleging that such a grant of authority would be in violation of the rights, given them under their charter, to the exclusive privilege of slaughtering animals for market in said parish. It was further alleged that such action on the part of the police jury of Jefferson would cause the plaintiff a manifest “ and irreparable injury of fifteen hundred dollars and upwards.”

This injunction was set aside by the order of…

2Cited by9 opinions

  1. Crescent City Live Stock Co. v. Batchers' Union Slaughter-House Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1887
  2. Adams v. Town of RustonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1925
  3. Poppleton v. MooresNebraska Supreme Court · 1901
  4. Salter v. BWS Corporation, Inc.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1973
  5. Algiers Ry. & Lighting Co. v. New Orleans Ry. & Light Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1915

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