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CITY & LAKE RAILROAD v. LOUISIANA EX REL. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

No. 29.

157 U.S. 219 (1895)

NEW ORLEANS CITY AND LAKE RAILROAD COMPANY v. LOUISIANA ex rel. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 4, 1895.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George Denègre and Mr. Walter D. Denègre for the plaintiff in error submitted on their brief.

Mr. E.A. O'Sullivan for the defendant in error submitted on his brief.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

By the first section of an act of the general assembly of Louisiana, approved July 12, 1888, No. 133, and entitled "An act providing a summary remedy against corporations to compel a compliance with certain obligations and contracts with municipal corporations, and providing ways and means to enforce said remedy," Laws of 1888, 191, it was provided that "in all cases where any corporation has heretofore contracted...

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