Cleveland Electric Railway Co v. Cleveland & the Forest City Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. . This bill was filed in the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Ohio on the twenty-first of March, 1905, against the City of Cleveland and The Forest City Railway Company, for the purpose of obtaining an injunction to restrain the city from carrying out a certain ordinance relating to the Garden street branch of complainant’s railroad, passed by the city council…
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. . This bill was filed in the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Ohio on the twenty-first of March, 1905, against the City of Cleveland and The Forest City Railway Company, for the purpose of obtaining an injunction to restrain the city from carrying out a certain ordinance relating to the Garden street branch of complainant’s railroad, passed by the city council January 11, 1904, on the ground that it was null and void, because it impaired the obligations of various contracts which the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
Out of these various ordinances and resolutions arise the difficulties suggested in this case. The facts are somewhat complicated by reason of their number, and the. inferences to be drawn from them are not always perfectly plain and certain. The complainant contends that, by reason of the action of the city council and the acceptance by the complainant of the various ordinances and resolutions adopted by that council, a valid contract has been entered into between the city and the' complainant, by which the right to use the streets named in .the ordinances by the Garden street branch has.…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Blair v. City of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- City of Cleveland v. Cleveland City Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Cleveland v. Cleveland Electric Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1906
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- State ex rel. County Attorney v. Des Moines City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1913
- Perry County Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Public Service CommissionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
- City of Detroit v. Detroit United RailwayMichigan Supreme Court · 1912
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