City of St. Louis v. St. Louis Railroad

The plaintiff complained in the first district police court of St. Louis, against the defendant, a street railway corporation, for having failed and refused, between the first and fifteenth days of July, 1882, to report to the city register a written statement under oath of the number of trips made by the cars of defendant, during three months, ending on the last day of June, 1882, and for having failed and refused, between the same dates, to report in like manner and to the same officer, the number of passengers carried by the defendant’s cars during the same three months. The police court…