ISBN: 9781130412000

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...491; Wharton, Crim. Law, 10th ed. SS 1476; Sedgw. Const. Law, 2d ed. pp. 413, 414; Black, Const. Law, p. 64; Northwestern Fertilizing Co. v. Hyde Park, 97 U. S. 659, 24 L. ed. 1036; Froelicher v. Oswald Ironworks, 111 La. 706, 64 L.R.A. 228, 35 So. 821; Vanderbilt v. Adams, 7 Cow. 349; McClanahan v. Vicksburg, S. & P. R. Co. Ill La. 786, 35 So. 902. Monroe, J., delivered the opinion of the court: The defendants in this case are prosecuted under an affidavit which charges that on or about the 25th day of October, 1909, on Elysian Fields street, between Dauphine and Marais streets,... one Jos. Lenfant, Jos. Kinkaid, Jno. McGuire, and Charles Marshall, each employees and officers, did then and there wilfully viol. ord. 6,057 N. C. S., and particularly sects. 1, 2, 3, and 4, of said ord. 6,057 N. C. S. All against the peace and dignity of the city of New Orleans. By which we understand is meant that the parties named, acting as officers and agents, violated ordinance No. 6,057 new council series, which ordinance reads and provides as follows: Whereas, numerous complaints have been made, and are being made, in regard to the parking of cars by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, on Elysian Fields street, to the great discomfort of persons living on that street, and with increase of danger to all persons crossing Elysian Fields street; and, whereas, these complaints tend to show that such use of the neutral ground in the middle of Elysian Fields street, by Bucii railroad companies, is wholly unnecessary on the part of said companies, and has led to many serious accidents, and to the depreciation of property on that street; and, whereas, the operation of said... Edmund Hamilton Smith, Books, History, Lawyers' reports annotated Volume 33 Books>History, General Books LLC<