Legal Opinion

City of Lincoln v. Lincoln St. Ry. Co.

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska

Decided December 14, 1896PublishedCited by 2 opinions

This was a bill by the city of Lincoln against the Lincoln StreetBailway Company and others. The cause was removed into this court from the district court of Lancaster county, Neb., and is now heard on motion to remand.

1Opinion of the Court

SLIIBAS, District Judge.

The bill in this case was filed in the district court of Lancaster county, Neb., it being charged therein that the Lincoln Street-Bailway Company was largely indebted to the complainant for paving done on the streets of the city of Lincoln over which the lines of the street railway extended, it being avérred that the street-railway company, by contract with the city, was¡ bound to pave, or to pay the cost of paving, so much of the streets as are between the rails of the street-railway track; that the amounts due for such paving had been duly assessed as a tax against *659fl…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Covell v. HeymanSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
  2. Byers v. McAuleySupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  3. Bock v. PerkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
  4. Chappell v. WaterworthSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  5. Gates v. BuckiCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1893

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Vadner v. VadnerDistrict Court, D. Nevada · 1918
  2. The Dalles & Rockland Ferry Co. v. HendryxU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon · 1911

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