Guillotte v. City of New Orleans

This suit, commenced by injunction, is brought to cause the ordinance of the city “Establishing the assize and regulating the weight and inspection ofbread,” to be decreed illegal.

The question to be decided is thus stated by the plaintiff’s and appellant’s counsel, viz:

“The issue submitted to this court is whether there is any such law as would authorize the defendant to pass and enforce the ordinance referred to above,— marking out the bakers of New Orleans as a peculiar set of traders, and holding that thebread manufactured by their skill and labor is notproperty, and its worth depends not…