Badger v. City of New Orleans

Dissenting Opinion.

Watkins, J.

This is a proceeding by mandamus on the part of the relator (lto compel the Oity Oouncil, representing the respondent, to appropriate in her annual budget of expenses for the year 1897 the sum of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, to be paid relator in monthly instalments of ten thousand dollars, in accordance with the terms of its contract, for the year 1897, made under and in pursuance of Ordinance No. 7860, O. S., bearing date August 3, 1893, same being for the collection, removal and disposal of garbage from the streets and public places of the city of…