The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Original Publisher: Books LLC Publication date: 1904Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that way the plighted faith of the public will be kept with those who have made large investments upon the assurance by the State that the contract with them will be performed. The demurrer to the bill of complaint should have been overruled. Upon its averments the complainant was entitled to a decree perpetually restraining the defendants, and each of them, their servants, agents and employees, from the manufacture and 51-24 distribution of gas in New Orleans, by means of pipes, mains and conduits laid in or along the streets and other public ways and places of that city. The decree dismissing the bill is reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings in conformity with this opinion. Reversed. True copy. Test: JAMES H. McKENNEY, Clerk U. S. Supreme Court. 52 Extract from Minutes of Meeting of Drainage Commission, Offered in Evidence by Plaintiff. Filed January 29th, 1900. Drainage Commission of New Orleans. Regular meeting April 20th, 1899. Mr. Spencer read a communication addressed to his firm by Mr. Buck, attorney of the New Orleans Gas Light Company, referring to the controversy pending between the said company and the commission, whereupon: Mr. Morris offered the following preamble and resolution Whereas in prosecution of the work contemplated by the commission claims for damages for injuries to property and life, or from other cause, may be made against the commission, and, Whereas it might be prudent for the commission to set aside certain funds, out of which any judgment which may be obtained may be satisfied, be it Resolved that there be set aside as a contingent fund, fifty thousand dollars in the present issue of bonds of the drainage commission, which bonds shall be replaced and substituted by an equal amount of any sub... Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc; Law / General; Law / Reference