Houston Electric Co. v. Mayor Etc., City

This appeal proceeds from an order entered in chambers by tbe judge of tbe Sixty-First district court refusing tbe Houston Electric Company’s application for a temporary injunction and for a peremptory writ of mandamus. By that means tbe company bad sought to have tbe mayor and city council of tbe city of Houston not only restrained from enforcing an ordinance of November 6, 1918, fixing street car fares upon its lines at five cents, and from interfering with it in collecting instead six-cent fares, claimed to be permissible under a prior ordinance of September 19, 1918, but also required…