City of San Antonio v. San Antonio Public Service Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OP TEXAS. This was a suit by the appellee to enjoin the appellants from enforcing an ordinance limiting the fare chargeable on its street car lines to an amount which had ceased to yield adequate returns and had become confiscatory. The court below overruled a motion to dismiss the bill (257 Fed. Rep. 467), sad, on final hearing, granted the relief prayed. The facts are given in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
The decree below enjoined the City of San Antonio from enforcing a five cents fare against the Public Service Company, operating street railway lines in that city, on the grpund that the right to enforce such rate was not secured to the city by contract and such enforcement was beyond the power of the city because of the confiscation of the property of the railway company which would result, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; >
The consideration we must give the subject will be clarified by outlining the origin and development of the controversy.
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