Case ID: la-ann_4/html/0278-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Eustis, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The First Municipality v. Devron.
    .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.
    by defendant from a judgment of a Justice of the Peace in New Orleans.
    
      Preaux and Morel, for the plaintiffs.
    
      Redmond, for the appellant.
   The judgment of the court (King, J. absent,) was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

This 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.

We perceive nothing unconstitutional or illegal in this ordinance.

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