Town of St. Martinville v. Dugas

O’NIELL, O. J.

The question in this case is whether a market ordinance of the town of St. Martinville is valid. The ordinance provides for a public market, owned and conducted by the municipality, and forbids butchers and retailers of butchers’ meat to sell elsewhere than in the market. As amended, the ordinance now forbids also delivering in the town any butchers’ meat that has not been exposed for sale in the public market. It is this amendment, forbidding delivering in the town meat that is sold outside of the town, that the district court has declared ultra vires and unconstitutional.

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