Compagnie Francaise De Navigation a Vapeur v. Louisiana State Board of Health
Supreme Court of the United States
EEEOE TO THE SUPEEME COUET OE THE STATE OE LOUISIANA. This action was commenced in the state court against the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana and three persons who were members of said board, and whom it was sought to hold individually responsible for damages alleged to have been suffered from the enforcement of a resolution adopted by the board upon the theory that the resolution referred to was ultra vires and hence the members of the board who voted for it were…
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EEEOE TO THE SUPEEME COUET OE THE STATE OE LOUISIANA. This action was commenced in the state court against the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana and three persons who were members of said board, and whom it was sought to hold individually responsible for damages alleged to have been suffered from the enforcement of a resolution adopted by the board upon the theory that the resolution referred to was ultra vires and hence the members of the board who voted for it were personally liable for any damages occasioned by the -enforcement of the resolution. The board was thus described in the…
1Dissent
Mr. Justice Brown,
with whom was
Mr. Justioe Harlan, dissenting.
The power of the several States, in the absence of legislation by Congress on the subject, to establish quarantine regulations, to prohibit the introduction into the State of persons infected *398with disease, or recently exposed to contagion, and to impose a reasonable charge upon vessels subjected to examination at quarantine. stations, is so well settled by repeated decisions of this court as to be no longer open to doubt. This case, however, does not involve that question, bub the broader one, whether, in the assumed exercise of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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