State v. Dupaquier
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Second Recorder’s Oourt of the Oity of New Orleans. De La Bretonne, J. The Federal Oonstitation is primarily a check upon Federal power; it exercises no restraint upon the sovereign powers of the States, except in so far as this latter effect is clearly provided for, iu the instrument itself.
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APPEAL from the Second Recorder’s Oourt of the Oity of New Orleans. De La Bretonne, J. The Federal Oonstitation is primarily a check upon Federal power; it exercises no restraint upon the sovereign powers of the States, except in so far as this latter effect is clearly provided for, iu the instrument itself. United States vs. Cruikshanks, 92 U. S. 550, 551, 552; Morgan vs. Louisiana Board of Health, 118 U. S. 467; State vs. Brennan, 50 N. W. Rep. 625; Ex parte MeNeely, 36 W. Ya. 881, 32 Am. St. Rep. 831. The provisions of the Federal Oonstitution forbidding unreasonable searches and seizures,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, 0. J.
The defendant having been sentenced to pay a fine of twenty-five dollars, and in default of twenty-five dollars to, suffer imprisonment for thirty days, on the charge of refusing, in violation of Ordinance No. 6576, of the city of New Orleans, approved August 2, 1892, to furnish the officers of the Board of Health with samples of the milk he was supplying to his customers, has appealed.
The constitutionality of the ordinance was attacked on several grounds by special plea in the magistrate’s court, and a bill of exceptions reserved to the…
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