City of Detroit v. Fort Wayne & Elmwood Railway Co.

This is an application for mandamus to compel the respondent, a street-railway company, to observe the order of the common council of the city of Detroit as to the removal of the projecting ends of the ties upon which its tracks are laid, on Champlain street, between Rivard and Randolph streets.

The petition sets forth that the city has let a contract for the repavement of Champlain street, said pavement to rest upon a concrete foundation; that the tracks of said railway are laid upon wooden ties, which extend a distance of six and one-half inches into the street on each side beyond the line…