Venner v. Chicago City Railway Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appear from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Farrin Q. Barr, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery filed in the superior court of Cook county by Clarence H. Venner, appellant, against the Chicago City Railway Company, its president and secretary and board of directors; J. P. Morgan & Co. and others, the majority stockholders of the Chicago City Railway Company; the First Trust and Savings Bank, trustee under a first mortgage executed to said trustee by the…
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Appear from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Farrin Q. Barr, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery filed in the superior court of Cook county by Clarence H. Venner, appellant, against the Chicago City Railway Company, its president and secretary and board of directors; J. P. Morgan & Co. and others, the majority stockholders of the Chicago City Railway Company; the First Trust and Savings Bank, trustee under a first mortgage executed to said trustee by the Chicago City Railway Company, dated July 1, 1907, given to secure an issue of bonds by the Chicago City Railway Company…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
It is first contended that the ordinance of February 11, 1907, impairs the charter rights of the Chicago City Railway Company as they existed at .the time of the passage of said ordinance, and that said ordinance is therefore ultra vires the city of Chicago and the Chicago City Railway Company, and void. To sustain this proposition the appellant sets out in -his bill the ordinance of August 15, 1858, the acts of 1859 and 1865, and the ordinances passed by the city of Chicago, the village of Hyde Park and the town of Lake from 1858 to 1906, so far as they apply to the Chicago City Railway…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Galliher v. CadwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Blair v. City of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Leslie v. . LorillardNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Townsend v. VanderwerkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Beveridge v. New York Elevated RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
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- Chicago Rys. Co. v. Illinois Commerce CommissionDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1922
- Illinois-American Water Co. v. City of PeoriaAppellate Court of Illinois · 2002
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