City of Atlanta v. Old Colony Trust Co.

This is an appeal from an order continuing an injunction pendente lite restraining the city of Atlanta from executing a certain ordinance of that city relating to compulsory transfers on the lines of the Atlanta Consolidated Street-Railway Company. The case was heard in the circuit court before Circuit .Judge McCormick and District Judge Newman upon a demurrer to the complainant’s bill, which demurrer raised all the questions presented on this hearing. In overruling the demurrer the two judges concurred in an elaborate and well-considered opinion, which is found in the record (83 Fed. 39),…