City of New Orleans v. New Orleans Water-works Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

The Act of the General Assembly, No. 33 of 1877, is the charter of the defendant company, and is entitled “An Act to enable the City of New Orleans to promote the public health and to afford greater security aqainst fire, by the establishment of a corporation to he called the New Orleans Water-works Company,” etc.

*433The act provides for the transfer from the city of New Orleans to the company of “the water-works and all the property appurtenant thereto,” then belonging to said city.

It confers upon the defendant sundry valuable privileges,…