Badger v. City of New Orleans

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

The Relator demands that this court order the city of New Orleans to place upon its budget of expenses .for the year 1897, to be paid from the yearly revenues, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars claimed by the relator for the company he represents, under its contract for removing the garbage of the city; the contract having been entered into in 1893 for the period of twenty years, with stipulated payments of ten thousand dollars per *806month to be provided for in the annual budgets. Pending the application for the injunction, the city…