Lincoln Traction Co. v. City of Lincoln

I concur in the judgment of affirmance, but not in the approval of the proviso in the ordinance levying an occupation tax on street railways. The recitals in the records introduced in. evidence disclose that prior to 1905 *334the city of Lincoln, had granted franchises to several street railway companies whose rights .vested in the Home Street Railway Company. By virtue of a foreclosure suit in the United States circuit court for the district of Nebraska, those franchises and the other properties, real and personal, of the last named company were sold to said city. In February, 1905, all…