Meyers v. Knott
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to restrain defendants from calling and conducting any election under the proposed street-railway franchise or ordinance or treating the ordinance under any circumstances as a valid ordinance or contract between the city and the company. From an order, Molyneaux, J., denying his motion for a temporary injunction, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtQuinn, J.
By chapter 124, p. 166, Laws of 1915, authority is granted to the city council or other governing body of any city in this state, then or thereafter having a population of more than 50,000 inhabitants, to grant a *201franchise for the construction, extension, maintenance and operation of street railways in and upon the streets and other public ways within or outside its boundaries, by pursuing the procedure and complying with the conditions therein stated and set forth. Among other things the statute, or enabling act, as it may be properly termed, provides that the franchise so authorized to be…
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