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83 U.S. 36 (1873)

16 Wall. 36

21 L.Ed. 394

THE BUTCHERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS, v. THE CRESCENT CITY LIVE-STOCK LANDING AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSE COMPANY. PAUL ESTEBEN, L. RUCH, J.P. ROUEDE, W. MAYLIE, S. FIRMBERG, B. BEAUBAY, WILLIAM FAGAN, J.D. BRODERICK, N SEIBEL, M. LANNES, J. GITZINGER, J.P. AYCOCK, D. VERGES, THE LIVE-STOCK DEALERS' AND BUTCHERS' ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS, AND CHARLES CAVAROC, v. THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, ex rel. S. BELDEN, ATTORNEY-GENERAL. THE BUTCHERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS, v. THE CRESCENT CITY LIVE-STOCK LANDING AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSE COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

April 14, 1873.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John A. Campbell, and also Mr. J.Q.A. Fellows, argued the case at much length and on the authorities, in behalf of the plaintiffs in error.

Messrs. M.H. Carpenter and J.S. Black (a brief of Mr. Charles Allen being filed on the same side), and Mr. T.J. Durant, representing in addition the State of Louisiana, contra.

Mr. Justice MILLER, now, April 14th, 1873, delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases are brought here by writs of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana. They arise out of the efforts of the butchers of New Orleans to resist the Crescent City Live-Stock Landing and Slaughter-House Company in the exercise of certain powers conferred by the charter which created it, and which was granted by the legislature of that State.

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