State v. Payssan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The defendant, fined for violating the ordinance relative to garbage, urges here that the ordinance is unreasonable and oppressive, and that it was not adopted with the view of preserving health and to maintain cleanliness.

The defendant says: That during about ten years he furnished milk to a boarding-house, at which house the proprietor collected for him the waste bread, meat and soup in a can, which he carried away in the evening, and left another in its stead; that he, at times, gave small quantities of milk; that these substances are…