Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway Co. v. City of Chicago

The city of Chicago passed an ordinance providing that a pass,enger who pays one five-cent fare to any one of the corporations owning or operating elevated railroads in the city shall be entitled to receive a transfer from such corporation entitling him to fide for a continuous trip within the city, without any further payment of fare, upon the railroad of- any other such corporation whose railroad connects, adjoins or intersects the railroad on which the payment is made. The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway Company, the Northwestern Elevated Railroad Company and the South Side…