Loeber v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The petitioners, Frederick E. Loeber, Henry Beer and Henry Abraham, residents and taxpayers of the city of New Orleans, represent that the defendant company consented a contract with the city, on the 7th of August, 1882, wherein “the following- stipulation, agreement and contract was entered into, for and in consideration of the franchise granted in said act by said city,” etc., viz:

“ It is to be well understood that the purchasers of this franchise bind themselves to pave Jackson street between their rails and tracks, from St. Charles…