Case Name: City of New Orleans vs. Edward Bermudez
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1880
Citations: 1 Mann. Unrep. Cas. 334
Docket Number: No. 7465
Parties: City of New Orleans vs. Edward Bermudez.
Judges: 
Reporter: Unreported cases heard and determined by the Supreme Court of Louisiana, from January 8, 1877, to April, 1880
Volume: 1
Pages: 334–335

Head Matter:
No. 7465.
City of New Orleans vs. Edward Bermudez.
The repeal of an Act of the Legislature that provided for the issue, or for the exchange of bonds theretofore issued by the City oí New Orleans, and for the levying a tax to pay the interest thereon, is not an enactment impairing the obligation of a contract.
Appeal from the Sixth District Court of New Orleans. Rightor, J.
Blanc for Plaintiff. Bermudez in pp. Appellant.
The suit was for the taxes of 1878, and was resisted on the ground that the defendant is the holder and owner of a number of bonds issued under the thirty-seventh section of the Act of February 28, 1852, and that as the city had failed to levy a tax for the years 1874-8 inclusive to pay the maturing coupons and to redeem the bonds as provided in that section, the ordinance imposing the tax on him, now sought to be recovered, impaired the obligation of a contract. The judgment below was for the city.

Opinion:
De Blanc, J.,
delivered the opinion affirming the judgment, and citing State ex rel. Southern Bank v. Pilsbury, 31 La. Ann. 1., then before the U. S. Supreme Court on a writ of error, and which that court afterwards reversed.