New Orleans Water-Works Co. v. Ernst

Two questions are presented in addition to those already-passed upon by former decrees in this court:

1. Whether an injunction shall issue when the complainant has no mains, or no adequate mains, for the delivery of water in sufficient quantities for the wants of the defendants. This question must he answered in the negative, from the very title of the act under which the complainants claim, which is as follows: “No. 83. An act to enable the city of New Orleans to promote the public health, and to afford greater security against fire, by tbe establishment of a corporation to be called tbe ‘New…