Van Horn v. City of Des Moines

I. Plaintiff, appellee herein, a citizen, a taxpayer, and a patron of the Des Moines City Railway Company, sought and obtained a decree in the court below, permanently enjoining the defendant city and its officers from putting into effect and enforcing Ordinance No. 3147 of said city. Ordinance No. 3147, by its terms, grants to the Des Moines City Railway Company, a corporation, a franchise to operate a street railway system in said city for a term of 25 years. Prior to the enactment of this ordinance, and in 1915, an ordinance known in the record as No. 2406, granting to the same street…