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,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
The above two cases are presented to us in one record, ■and to be decided together.
The issues will be stated as briefly as possible :
Lucas E. Moore, plaintiff in one and relator in the other case, substantially avers that he is the owner of certain bonds of the city of New Orleans (commonly known as Premium BondsJ issued under the provisions of an act of the Legislature of the State, being Act No. 31 of 1876, and of certain ordinances of the city of New Orleans referred to in said 'act; that by the provisions of said act it is made the duty…
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