Shepard v. City of New Orleans

Citations

• 51 La. Ann. 847
• 25 So. 542
• 1899 La. LEXIS 480

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>'The provision of the city charter that the council shall not grant any privilege for the opening of a barroom except upon the written consent of a majority of the bona fide house holders, or property holders, within three hundred feet of the place proposed for its establishment, means either one or the other, indifferently, and without distinction.</p> <p>A house holder is a person who occupies a house as a place of residence or business, without any relation to the character of the title by which the property is held.</p>