City of Covington v. South Covington & Cincinnati Street Railway Co.

This is a bill in equity brought by the appellee to restrain the City of Covington from carrying out an ordl-*415nance of July 14, 1913, that provides for the grant of a twenty-year franchise for a street railway over certain streets to the best bidder. The plaintiff claims a right by grant and contract over the same streets, which will be interfered with, and sets up Article I, § 10, and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. The defendant says that the plaintiff’s grant has expired, and that if it purports to be perpetual it was beyond the power of the city. These are the two…