Orleans-Kenner Electric Ry. Co. v. Dunbar
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Suit in equity by Charles T. Dunbar against the Orleans-Kenner Electric Railway Company and the Police Jury of the Parish of Jefferson, La. Decree for complainant, and defendant Railway Company appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge.
The parties named as defendants to the bill in this case were the Orleans-Kenner Electric Railway Company, a private corporation, and the police jury of the parish of Jefferson, state of Louisiana, a municipal corporation, and the purpose of the bill was to enjoin the exercise of the privilege or right which a resolution adopted by the last-named defendant undertook to confer upon the first-named defendant. On its face, the resolution in question purported to do no more than grant to the railway company permission to cross several enumerated public streets and highways…
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