Moore v. City of New Orleans
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A. PPEriL from the Fifth District Court, parish of Orleans. J. Rogers.. First — When the Legislature of a State authorizes a municipal corporation to contract a debt, that authorization carries with it by necessary implication the power to provide for the payment or redemption, thereof, by the levy and collection of a sufficient tax, unless the contrary expressly appears. 1 Hughes, 484; 20 Wall. 000; 111 Mass. 400 ; 43 Pa.
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A. PPEriL from the Fifth District Court, parish of Orleans. J. Rogers.. First — When the Legislature of a State authorizes a municipal corporation to contract a debt, that authorization carries with it by necessary implication the power to provide for the payment or redemption, thereof, by the levy and collection of a sufficient tax, unless the contrary expressly appears. 1 Hughes, 484; 20 Wall. 000; 111 Mass. 400 ; 43 Pa. St. 290 ; 98 U. S. 381. Second — Where a statute has authorized a municipal corporation to. issue bonds and to exercise the power of local taxation in order to-pay them,…
1Dissent
Dissenting Opinion.
Bermudez, C. J.
The following dissenting opinion was delivered by his Honor, Edward Bermudez, Chief Justice :
I cannot concur in the opinion and decree of the majority of the Court in these cases.
As matters of great public interest have been agitated, I have made it my duty to assign the reasons which constrain me to dissent.
The issues presented in this litigation involve many important questions, difficult of solution, as well as matters of magnitude to those concerned.
The questions raised may, however, be unified and assumed to be:
Has this Court the legal right, and is it…
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