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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.

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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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