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NEW ORLEANS TAX PAYERS' v. SEWERAGE BD.

No. 192.

237 U.S. 33 (1915)

35 S.Ct. 542

59 L.Ed. 828

NEW ORLEANS TAX PAYERS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION v. SEWERAGE AND WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 5, 1915.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles Louque for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Walter L. Gleason, with whom Mr. Isaiah D. Moore was on the brief, for defendant in error.

Memorandum opinion by direction of the court. By MR. JUSTICE HOLMES.

This is a petition to have an act of the Louisiana legislature (1908, No. 270), and ordinances of the respondent Board declared unconstitutional as impairing the obligation of a contract between the property tax payers and the City of New Orleans. The statute makes it the duty of the Board to require all inhabited premises in the City to be connected with...

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