Patout Bros. v. Mayor of New Iberia
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Iberia; James Simon, Judge. Suit by Patout Bros, against the Mayor and Board of Trustees of the City of New Iberia. Erom a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The plaintiffs carry on a livery stable business in the city of New Iberia. They were about to enlarge their stable by erecting a new building when they were notified by the city authorities that if they did so they would be prosecuted criminally under an ordinance of the city. Thereupon they brought this suit enjoining the city authorities from enforcing said ordinance in the- manner thus threatened.
The ordinance makes it an offense punishable by fine and imprisonment to “open up, begin, erect, maintain, run, or conduct or operate a livery stable within the residential portion of the city of…
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