City of New Orleans v. Rhenish Westphalian Lloyds

This record contains a number of cases tried together, and depending substantially upon the solution of the same questions.

In December, 1878, as by law required, the City Council adopted ordinance No. 4789, and an amendatory ordinance, No. 4820, imposing a license tax on “ each and every insurance company (life and accident insurance companies excepted) located and doing an insurance business in the city of New Orleans; every agency doing such business in said city for any insurance company or companies not therein located, for each and every company by said agent represented, one thousand…