26 La. Ann. 754 | La. | 1874
The city, on the fourteenth December, 1867, authorized the controller to adjudicate or cause to be adjudicated, to the highest bidder, the collection of the revenues of the public markets. The adjudication was to be made by public auction.
Plaintiffs allege that one of the markets was adjudicated to them for $54,800, but that the controller disregarded the adjudication, and instructed his deputy to cry the market anew, which was done. At the second crying it was adjudicated to J. Grevenig for $57,300. They claim from the city the difference between $54,800, the amount of their bid, and $57,300 — that is to say, $2500. They say that the first adjudication vested the title to collect the revenues of the market in them, and that when, in defiance of this adjudication, the controller sold it again, and received $2500 more than their bid, this $2500 belonged to them, and the district judge gave them a judgment for it. There is
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment of the district court be avoided, annulled and reversed, and that there be judgment in favor of defendants with costs in'both courts.