Clem v. City of LaGrange

The City of La Grange adopted a “bus ordinance,” declaring- that the business of operating a bus line shall consist in the operation of motor-vehicles for transporting persons for hire in the city “over a fixed route or routes,” to be approved by the council, and prescribed a maximum fare of ten cents for each passenger over 12 years of age, but did not name any minimum charge. It also required maintenance of “fixed schedules each day, Sunday excepted,” and required operations from “seven o’clock a. m. to six o’clock p. m., inclusive of those hours.” On the same day the city also adopted a…