Land Development Co. of Louisiana, Ltd. v. City of New Orleans

BURNS, District Judge.

Complainant, a Louisiana corporation, as owner of a city lot in New Orleans, with a dwelling house thereon, filed its bill herein on March 12, 1926, complaining that the defendant, city of New Orleans, acting under an ordinance relative to negro and white communities, is depriving it of the use and enjoyment of its property, by interfering with the renting of same to negroes, and with the occupancy of such tenants, simply because they are negroes, by threatening to arrest' and prosecute the tenants for the misdemeanor defined by the ordinance, which reads as follows:

“No.…