Case Name: The First Municipality v. Devron
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1849-04
Citations: 4 La. Ann. 278
Docket Number: 
Parties: The First Municipality v. Devron.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 278–278

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.