New Orleans Tax Payers' Protective Assn. v. Sewerage and Water Bd. of New Orleans

Citations

• 237 U.S. 33
• 35 S. Ct. 542
• 59 L. Ed. 828
• 1915 U.S. LEXIS 1307

Syllabus

<p>The fact that water used for drinking and bathing goes into the sewer after it has been used does not make it water for sewerage purposes.</p> <p>Act No. 270, Louisiana, of 1908, and ordinance of the City of New Orleans thereunder establishing rates for water for drinking and domestic purposes other than sewerage is not unconstitutional as impairing the obligation of the statute of August, 1897, providing for free water for sewerage purposes.</p> <p>Where the later Act'complained of goes no farther than the prior act, the obligation of whose contract is claimed to have been impaired, there is no ground for invoicing the jurisdiction of this court under § 237, Jud. Code, and the writ will be dismissed.</p>