Merchants' Loan & Trust Co. v. Chicago Rys. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. These appeals were taken from the order entered the 12th day of August, Í907, in the matter of the petition of the Chicago Railways Company filed in the three cases of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, one against the Chicago Union Traction Company et al., another against the North Chicago Street Railroad Company et al., and the third against the West Chicago Street Railroad…
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• Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. These appeals were taken from the order entered the 12th day of August, Í907, in the matter of the petition of the Chicago Railways Company filed in the three cases of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, one against the Chicago Union Traction Company et al., another against the North Chicago Street Railroad Company et al., and the third against the West Chicago Street Railroad Company et al., reported in 158 Fed. 913. The order entered by the Circuit Court contained these specific findings: And it…
1Opinion of the Court
BREWER, Circuit Justice.
Public interests, the necessity of a unity of operation and control of the street car system in North and West Chicago, are the stress of the argument in favor of the order of the Circuit Court. Section 38 of the ordinance, as well as the statements of counsel, make against this contention, inasmuch as there is by that section given to the company that has the ownership of the south side property the right to proceed into the north and west side, and thus establish a unified system for the entire city. It becomes, therefore, more a question of private rights.
I think I…
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