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4 La. Ann. 278

First Municipality v. Devron

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided April 15, 1849

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1849-04-15

<p>.The ordinance of the Council of the First Municipality, of 16 February, 1846, imposing a fine on persons selling groceries in certain market-houses of that municipality, is neither illegal nor unconstitutional.</p>

Decided 1849-04-15

¶1The judgment of the court (King, J. absent,) was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

¶2This is an appeal from a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace, by which the municipality recovered the sum of fifteen dollars from the defendant, being the amount of a fine incurred under an ordinance approved the 16th of February, 1846, which imposed a fine on persons selling groceries in the markets.

¶3We perceive nothing unconstitutional or illegal in this ordinance.

¶4 Judgment affirmed. *

¶5A similar judgment was pronounced, at thesame time,in aseeond case between the same parties, for another fine of fifty dollars.

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