Venner v. Chicago City Ry. Co.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
In Equity. Suit by Clarence H. Venner against the Chicago City Railway Company and others.
1Opinion of the Court
KOHLSAAT, Circuit Judge.
Complainant files his bill to set aside and declare unconstitutional and invalid an ordinance of the city of Chicago passed February 11, 1907; also for injunction and incidental relief, on the ground that the ordinance impairs the obligation of contracts of complainant as a stockholder of the railway company, in violation of paragraph 10 of article 1 of the Constitution of the United States, and because the ordinance takes the property of complainant *789without due process of law. Defendants pleaded in bar the decree of the superior court dismissing the cause for want of…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Russell v. PlaceSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Farmers & Mechanics Life Ass'n v. CaineIllinois Supreme Court · 1906
- Venner v. Chicago City Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1908
- Richards v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Connolly v. DammannIllinois Supreme Court · 1907
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Venner v. Chicago City Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1912