Minneapolis Street Railway Co. v. City of Minneapolis

Matson, Justice.

Defendants appeal from a judgment on the pleadings in an action under the declaratory judgments act wherein a 1946 Minneapolis ordinance — purporting to amend an earlier street railway franchise grant by increasing the annual license fee for each car from $25 to $100 — was held invalid and void.

Defendants are herein referred to collectively as the city and the plaintiff as the street railway. The following issues are raised: (1) The street railway has challenged the constitutionality — under both the federal and the state constitutions — of the 1946 ordinance, on the grounds…