City of New Orleans v. Steinhardt

Citations

• 52 La. Ann. 1043

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>l. The authority of an attorney at law to represent his client will be presumed, unless challenged under oath.</p> <p>The city of New Orleans is authorized to open and widen streets without a petition from property holders, and the propriety of so doing in a given case is a matter of legislative, rather than judicial, discretion, with which the courts will not interfere except in cases of gross abuse of authority.</p> <p>3. The city also has the power to authorize the use of the streets for the purposes of railroads, and may, in the same ordinance, provide for the opening and widening of a street, and for its use, when opened and widened, by a steam railroad' company, the privilege granted not being exclusive.</p> <p>4. The assessment made by a jury, in an expropriation case, will not be disturbed unless manifestly erroneous.</p>