Kaiser v. City of New Orleans

This action was brougnt in the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, to recover damages from the city for an alleged violation of a contract, entered into between the city and the plaintiff, by which the city transferred to him the right to collect the revenues of the city, accruing under its ordinance, from the meat market, situated in the Second District of the city, for one year, beginning on the 1st January and ending on the 31st December, 1859.

The city pleaded the general issue.

The obligations, rights and disabilities of the contracting parties are determined by Articles 2262, 2268 and…