Fox v. City of New Orleans

This action is based upon an alleged contract. The plaintiff declares that the late Second Municipality of New Orleans passed an ordinance *155requiring the Surveyor thereof to notify certain proprietors of lots therein to fill them, and in default of their compliance within thirty days to cause the same to be filled at the expense of the owners ; that the lots of one Worthington were ordered to be filled in pursuance of this ordinance* and the owner failing to do it, the Surveyor of the Second Municipality employed the petitioner to fill them, and “ contracted with him to fill the same for the…