Legal Opinion
Logansport Ry. Co. v. City of Logansport
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana
Decided March 8, 1902No. 10,031PublishedCited by 6 opinions
In Equity. On demurrer to bill.
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, District Judge.
The question for decision is raised by a demurrer to the bill of complaint. The bill is brought by the Logans-port Railway Company against the city of Kogansport, and the mayor and members of its common council, to enjoin them from enforcing an ordinance adopted on October 30, 1901, on the ground that it is void because it impairs the contract rights of the complainant. The bill is in the nature of a bill for the specific enforcement of the complainant’s contract rights against alleged infringement by the enforcement of the later ordinance. Before the complainant can, in…
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