People v. Detroit United Railway

Defendant was convicted in the recorder’s court of the city of Detroit of violating the provisions of section 19 of chapter 165 of the compiled ordinances of 1904. The complaint and the section of the ordinance in question are as follows:

‘c Harry J. Lowther, being first duly sworn, makes complaint, and says that at the city of Detroit, aforesaid, on the 5th day of February, A. D. 1908, within the corporate lines of said city, to wit, on the Sherman street car line, east bound, at the hour of 6:40 p. m., one Detroit United Railway, a Michigan corporation, operating street cars on said line,…