Burton v. Taxicab Co.

Burton, the owner of a private taxicab in Baltimore City, appeals from an order in equity holding him in contempt, and fining him a nominal amount, for violation of an injunction against using and operating in the city a taxicab not so marked as to be easily distinguishable from the yellow taxicabs operated by the Taxicab Company. Burton’s cab had been painted in the same shade of yellow, combined in the same design with masses and lines of black as the cabs long maintained by the Taxicab Company, except for a difference in the painting of the wheels; and the company applied for an injunction…