Detroit United Railway v. Michigan
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. The case is stated in the opinion. The Michigan Supreme Court bases its judgments solely on the meaning of the contracts existing between the parties. People v. Detroit United Railway, 162 Michigan, 460, 463, 465; City of Detroit v. Detroit United Railway, 173 Michigan, 314, 326, 327, 328. The decision of a state court defining the meaning of a contract, without reference to a subsequent law, raises no federal question.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. The case is stated in the opinion. The Michigan Supreme Court bases its judgments solely on the meaning of the contracts existing between the parties. People v. Detroit United Railway, 162 Michigan, 460, 463, 465; City of Detroit v. Detroit United Railway, 173 Michigan, 314, 326, 327, 328. The decision of a state court defining the meaning of a contract, without reference to a subsequent law, raises no federal question. Detroit City Railway v. Guthard, 114 U. S. 133; Henderson Bridge Co. v. City of Henderson, 141 U. S. 679; Henderson Bridge…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
These two cases involve identical questions, were argued together, and may be disposed of in a single opinion. They concern the rates of fare that may be charged by plaintiff in error upon certain street railway lines within the present limits of the City of Detroit, and in both cases it is insisted that the state court of last resort has given such an effect to statutes enacted in the years 1905 and 1907 for extending the corporate limits as to impair the obligation of the contracts contained in franchises theretofore granted by the governing authorities of the annexed territory to the…
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