MORGAN v. LOUISIANA


118 U.S. 455 (1886)

MORGAN'S STEAMSHIP COMPANY v. LOUISIANA BOARD OF HEALTH & Another.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 10, 1886.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.J. Leovy and Mr. Joseph E. McDonald for plaintiff in error.

Mr. F.C. Zacharie and Mr. William M. Evarts for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE MILLER, after stating the case as above reported, delivered the opinion of the court.

The services for which these fees are to be collected are parts of a system of quarantine provided by the laws of Louisiana, for the protection of the State, and especially of New Orleans, an important commercial city, from infectious and contagious diseases which might be brought there by vessels coming through the Gulf of Mexico...

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