Village of Grandville v. Grand Rapids, Holland, & Chicago Railway

In 1900, the village of Grandville, by ordinance, granted a 30-year franchise to the Grand Rapids, Holland & Lake Michigan Rapid Railway, its successors and assigns, “to construct, maintain, own, use and operate a single .or double track street railway, * * * upon * * * State street,” upon the following, among other terms and conditions:

“In case any street or avenue upon which said track is laid, shall be paved by said village', the grantee, its successors and assigns, shall contemporaneously at their own expense pave the space between the rails of said track with the same material and in…