Conery v. New Orleans Waterworks Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for tire Parish of Orleans. Lasarus, J. 1. The district courts of this Sítate are courts of superior aud general jurisdiction, with as full power to issue the writ of injunction in all proper cases as any Lord High Chancellor. 2. One or more resident taxpayers lias the right to invoke that jurisdiction, without any allegation or proof of special injury or damage, to restrain municipal corporations and municipal officers from making…
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APPEAL from the Civil District Court for tire Parish of Orleans. Lasarus, J. 1. The district courts of this Sítate are courts of superior aud general jurisdiction, with as full power to issue the writ of injunction in all proper cases as any Lord High Chancellor. 2. One or more resident taxpayers lias the right to invoke that jurisdiction, without any allegation or proof of special injury or damage, to restrain municipal corporations and municipal officers from making unlawful disposition of corporate funds or corporate property, the creation of illegal debts and the making of void contracts…
1Opinion of the Court
Tlie opinion of tlie Court was delivered by
Todd, J.
This is an action on the part of the plaintiffs, residents of the- city of New Orleans, alleging themselves to be taxpayers to the *772city in a sum exceeding $10,000, against the city of New Orleans and the New Orleans Waterworks Company and others, seeking to restrain the execution of a contract entered into between the city and the said Waterworks Company on the 3d of October, 1884, and to prevent the council of the city from making any appropriations out of the public treasury in furtherance of the contract and the ordinance authorizing it;…
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