City of Hammond v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.
Indiana Court of Appeals
From the Porter Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtFox, J.
This case was originally appealed from the Porter Circuit Court to the Supreme Court, but that court, in the case of City of Hammond v. New York, etc., R. W. Co., 126 Ind. 597, decided that the proper jurisdiction was in this court, and so transferred it.
In order to make apparent the questions submitted for our *527consideration, we find it necessary to make the following abstract of the facts as they appear in the record :
Upon the 13th of August, 1888, the common council of the city of Hammond, at a regular session, enacted an ordinance, the first and third sections of which were as follows:
“Sect…
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