Scott v. Cincinnati, N. & C. Ry. Co.

Opinion op the Court .by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

Prior to September, 1932, the City of Newport had vested the Cincinnati, Newport & Covington (Street) Railway Company with.a franchise privilege to operate upon the streets of the city a street railway system, equipped with electrically propelled street cars for the transportation of passengers. Perhaps, also (the record not being clear on that point), it had consented for the substitution of passenger busses on some of its .streets, in lieu of electrically propelled street cars running upon fixed railway tracks. There arose a controversy between…