Slaughter House Cases: Butchers' Benevolent Assn. of New Orleans v. Crescent City Livestock Landing & Slaughter-house Co.
United States Supreme Court
83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1872)
Relevant factsFree
To address contamination of New Orleans's water supply from upstream slaughterhouses, Louisiana centralized all slaughtering into a single company, Crescent City (defendant), requiring all butchers to pay to use its facilities; the Butchers' Benevolent Association (plaintiff) challenged the monopoly as violating the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, and the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the law.
IssueFree
Whether the Louisiana statute creating a slaughterhouse monopoly violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.