Case ID: la-ann_27/html/0676-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Morgan, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 3959.
    Wm. Durbridge v. The Slaughterhouse Company. A. J. Oliver, Intervenor.
    This court will have nothing to do with a suit springing from a fund created for the purpose of corrupting and improperly influencing members of the Legislature in their action on matters of legislation then before them.
    APPEAL from the Sixth District. Court, parish of Orleans. Cooley, J.
    
      J. A. Bartlette, J. Livingston, for plaintiff and appellant. A. Voorhies, JBornor & Benedict. Semmes & Mott, for defendant and appellant. Wooldridge & Thomas, for intervenor and appellant.
   Morgan, J.

The motion to dismiss this appeal on the ground that the record does not contain all the evidence, comes too late. The record was filed in April, 1870. The motion to dismiss was made shortly before the argument.

On the merits we are satisfied, from an examination of the testimony, that the ground from which this action springs was a fund created for the purpose of corrupting and improperly influencing members of the Legislature in their action on a matter of legislation then before them. We will have nothing to do with it.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that this appeal be dismissed at appellant’s costs.

Rehearing refused.