BUTCHERS'BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION v. Crescent City Live-Stock Landing and Slaughter-House Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
These were motions made at the close of this term (December, 1869), in behalf of several plaintiffs in error, to enforce the supersedeas on writs of error which had issued in five several .cases to the Supreme Court of .the State of Lóuisiana, returnable to the term now coming (December, 1870), of this court.
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These were motions made at the close of this term (December, 1869), in behalf of several plaintiffs in error, to enforce the supersedeas on writs of error which had issued in five several .cases to the Supreme Court of .the State of Lóuisiana, returnable to the term now coming (December, 1870), of this court. The case was this: By the 25th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, this court has power, on writ of error, to re-examine a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a State in'which a decision in the suit could be had, “ where is drawn in question…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
stated the case in detail, and’delivered the opinion of the court.
All persons-and corporations, .except-the Crescent City Live-stock Landing and Slaughter-house Company, are prohibited, by an act .passed by the legislature of the State of *285Louisiana, to land, keep, or slaughter any cattle, beeves, calves, sheep, swine, or other animals, or to have, keep, or establish any stock-landings, yards, pens, slaughter-houses, or abattoirs at any point or place within the city of New Orleans or the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard, or at any place on the east bank of the river within the…
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