City of Chicago v. Chicago City Railway Co.

The defendant in error, the city of Chicago, brought two suits in the municipal court of Chicago against the plaintiff in error, the Chicago City Railway Company, to recover penalties,—one under an ordinance providing for transfers for continuous trips on the cars of the plaintiff in error within the city limits, and the other under the requirement that the plaintiff in error should post two or more notices in each car containing substantially so much ' of the section providing for .transfers as relates to transfer tickets. The cases were tried before the court without a jury and resulted in…