People's Transit Co. v. Louisville Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The parties to this litigation (the appellant and defendant below, People’s Transit Company, and the appellee and plaintiff below, Louisville Railway Company) are corporations, and will be hereinafter referred to as the Transit Company and the Railway Company, respectively. The Railway Company owns and operates on the streets of the city of Louisville a street railway system for the transportation of passengers. Its cars run upon a fixed track, consisting of two rails laid on cross-ties at a fixed place in the streets it traverses, and it operates…