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Slaughter-House Cases U.S. 36 (1873)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0473 and id is 1 raw text is: SLAUGHTER-HOUSE CASES. [Sup. Ct Syllabus. It is said, however, she has been mulcted in excessive damages. The District Court and the Circuit Court con- curred in the assessment made, and we do not perceive that more was allowed to the libellants than the evidence warranted. When both the lower courts have agreed ia their estimate of the damages, we ought not to set aside their conclusions without satisfactory evidence that they were mistaken. We have no such evidence before us. DECREE AFFIRMED. SLAUGHTER-HOUSE CASES. THE BUTCHERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION Or NEW ORLEANS v. THE CRESCENT C= LIvE-STocK LANDING AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSE COMPANY. PAUL ESTEREN, L. RUCH, J. P. ROUEDE, W. MAYLIE, S. FIRBERG, B. BEAUBAY, WILLIAII FAGAN, J. D. BRODERICK, N. SEIBEL, M. LANNES, J. GITZINGER, 3. P. AyCocE, ). VERGES, THE LIvE-STocK DEALERS' AND BUTCHERS' ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS, AND CHARLES CAVAROC v. THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, ex re. S. BELDEN, ATTORNEY- GENERAL. THE BUTCHERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION Or NEW ORLEANS v. THE.CRESCENT CITY LIVE-STOCK LANDING AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSE COMPANY. 1. The legislature of Louisiana, on the 8th of March, 1869, passed an act granting to a corporation, created by it, the exclusive right, for twenty- five years, to have and maintain slaughter-houses, landings for cattle, and yards for inclosing cattle intended for sale or slaughter within the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard, in that State (a territory which, it was said,-see infra, p. 85,-contained 1154 square miles, including the city of New Orleans, and a population of between two and three hundred thousand people), and prohibiting all other per- sons from building, keeping, or having slaughter-houses, landings for cattle, and yards for cattle intended for sale or slaughter, within those limits; and requiring that all cattle and other animals intended for sale or slaughter in that district, should be brought to the yards and slaughter-houses of the corporation; and authorizing the corporation to exact certain prescribed fees for the use of its wharves and for each animal landed, and certain prescribed fees for each animal slaughtered, besides the head, feet, gore, and entrails, except of swine: Held, that this grant of exclusive right or privilege, guarded by proper limitation of the prices to be charged, and imposing the duty of providing ample conveniences, with permission to all owners of stock to land, and of all

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