City of Detroit v. Detroit City Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan
In Equity. Bill in the circuit court of Wayne county, Mich., by the city of Detroit against the Detroit City Railway Company, the Detroit Citizens’ Street-Railway Company, Sidney D. Miller and William K. Muir, trustees, and the Washington Trust Company of the City of New York. The Washington Trust Company of the City of Yew York removed the cause to the federal circuit • court, and it is now on motion to remand.
1Opinion of the Court
TAFT, Circuit Judge.
This is a motion to remand a suit in equity, which has been removed here from the circuit court of Wayne county, Mich. The averments of the bill filed by the city of Detroit, stated generally, are that the Detroit Citizens’ Btreet Railway is in the possession and enjoyment of a franchise to operate street railways in a number of the streets of the city; that by virtue of a limitation of ihe constitution of the state of Michigan the franchise will expire May 9, 1893; that the railway company claims that the franchise will not expire until 1909; that the city wishes to sell…
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