City of Minneapolis v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA.' The facts, which involve the franchise of the Minneapolis Street Railway Company and whether the obligation of its contract was impaired by a subsequent ordinance, requiring it to sell six tickets for twenty-five cents, are stated in the opinion. The corporation was organized in 1873 under Title II and not Title I of Ch. 34, Minn.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA.' The facts, which involve the franchise of the Minneapolis Street Railway Company and whether the obligation of its contract was impaired by a subsequent ordinance, requiring it to sell six tickets for twenty-five cents, are stated in the opinion. The corporation was organized in 1873 under Title II and not Title I of Ch. 34, Minn. Revision-of 1866, as amended in 1868 and 1873; the life of the charter.was necessarily limited to thirty years, and contract rights, if any existed, terminated in 1903, as they were…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dat
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota, enjoining the city of Minneapolis from enforcing, as against the Minneapolis Street Railway Company, appellee, a certain ordinance of the city of Minneapolis, passed February 9, 1907, prescribing the rate of fare for the transportation of passengers over any street railway line, or lines, of the company in the city of Minneapolis.
The case was tried upon amended bill and answer. The ground alleged for injunction in' the amended bill was in substance that the ordinance of February 9, 1907,…
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