Ryan v. Louisiana Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

McBRIDE, Judge.

This suit, which has for its object the abatement of an alleged nuisance, was brought by a Pennsylvania corporation known as the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People, and thirty-two of its individual members, all nuns, residing in the convent operated by the corporate plaintiff in the City of New Orleans. The defendant appealed from the judgment rendered below to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and that Court having determined (one justice dissenting) that it had no jurisdiction of the case, transferred the appeal to us. See 221 La. 559, 59 So.2d 883.…