Compagnie Francaise De Navigation a Vapeur v. Louisiana State Board of Health

Citations

• 186 U.S. 380
• 22 S. Ct. 811
• 46 L. Ed. 1209
• 1902 U.S. LEXIS 903

Syllabus

<p>The law of Louisiana under which the Board of Health exerted the authority complained of in this case, is found in section 8 of Act 192 of 1898. The Supreme Court of Louisiana, interpreting this statute held that it empowered the board to exclude healthy persons from a locality infested with a contagious or infectious disease, and that this power was intended to apply as well to persons seeking to enter the infected place, whether they came from without or within the State. Held: That this empowered the board to exclude healthy persons from a locality infested with a contagious or infectious disease, and that the power was intended to apply as well to persons seeking to enter the infected place, whether they came from without or within the State.</p>