Butchers' Benevolent Ass'n v. Crescent City Live-Stock Landing & Slaughter-House Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Louisiana. The three cases — the parties to which-as plaintiffs and defendants in error, are given specifically as a sub-title, at the head of this report, but which are reported together'also under the general name which, in common parlance, they had acquired — grew out of an act of the legislature of the State of Louisiana, entitled': “ Ah act to protect the health of the City of New Orleans, to locate the stock landings and slaughterhouses,…
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Error to the Supreme Court of Louisiana. The three cases — the parties to which-as plaintiffs and defendants in error, are given specifically as a sub-title, at the head of this report, but which are reported together'also under the general name which, in common parlance, they had acquired — grew out of an act of the legislature of the State of Louisiana, entitled': “ Ah act to protect the health of the City of New Orleans, to locate the stock landings and slaughterhouses, and to incorporate ‘ The Crescent City Live-Stock Landing and Slaughter-House Company,’” which was approved on the 8th of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
These cases are brought here by .writs of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana. They arise out of the efforts of the butchers of New Orleans to resist the Crescent City Live-Stock Landing and Slaughter-House Company in the exercise of certain powers conferred by the charter which created it, and which was granted by the legislature of that State.
The cases named on a preceding page,* with others which have beeu brought here and dismissed by agreement, were all decided by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in favor of the Slaughter-House Company, as we shall hereafter call it for…
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