METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS CHAPTER v. COUNCIL, ETC.

No. 10874.

391 So.2d 878 (1980)

METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS CHAPTER OF the LOUISIANA CONSUMERS' LEAGUE, INC., People Power, Mary Elizabeth Petts, Flossie Milford Simon, Brenda Davillier, Brother Kieran Dugas, Lynn Terrance, Alonde Harrison, Thelma Gath and Rita R. Smith and all others similarly situated v. The COUNCIL OF the CITY OF NEW ORLEANS and New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writs Refused January 26, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Robbert, New Orleans, for Metropolitan New Orleans Chapter of the Louisiana Consumers' League, Inc., plaintiff-appellee.

Archie B. Creech and Brian J. Waid, New Orleans, for People Power, et al., plaintiffs-appellees.

Burke & Mayer, Charles B. Mayer and James G. Burke, Jr., Christopher T. Screen, William C. Nelson, and Floyd A. Hennen, New Orleans, for NOPSI, defendant-appellant.

Debra J. Fischman, Asst. City Atty., and Salvador Anzelmo, City Atty., New Orleans, for The Council of the City of New Orleans, defendant-appellant.

Before SAMUEL, REDMANN and CHEHARDY, JJ.


SAMUEL, Judge.

This is a suit by ten plaintiffs,1 purporting to act on behalf of the class constituting all persons similarly situated, against the Council of the City of New Orleans (Council) and New Orleans Public Service, Inc. (NOPSI), to obtain a refund of a $0.05 bus and streetcar fare increase collected by NOPSI pursuant to council resolution R-75-150 for the period during which the increase was collected, November 14, 1975 to November...

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