Setzer v. City of Pottsville
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 210, Oct. T., 1919, from order and decree of C. P. Schuylkill Co., sitting in equity, dissolving preliminary injunction July Term, 1919, No. 1, in the case of Arlington Setzer v. The City of Pottsville, F. Pierce. Mortimer, Mayor; Joseph H. Nichter, Superintendent of the Department of Streets and Public Improvements, and James W. Hoepstine, Chief of Police of the City of Pottsville.
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Appeal, No. 210, Oct. T., 1919, from order and decree of C. P. Schuylkill Co., sitting in equity, dissolving preliminary injunction July Term, 1919, No. 1, in the case of Arlington Setzer v. The City of Pottsville, F. Pierce. Mortimer, Mayor; Joseph H. Nichter, Superintendent of the Department of Streets and Public Improvements, and James W. Hoepstine, Chief of Police of the City of Pottsville. Bill in equity for injunction to restrain defendant from enforcing against the complainant an ordinance of the City of Pottsville, passed June 3, 1919, regulating autobusses, taxicabs, etc. The facts…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The Public Service Commission, on September 21, 1916, issued to the plaintiff a certificate of public convenience authorizing him to operate, as a common carrier of passengers, a line of motor busses between the Borough of Minersville and the City of Pottsville, including a certain designated route in said city. He continued to operate said vehicles from the date of the certificate until June 3, 1919, when the city duly passed an ordinance designating certain streets on which interurban busses should be operated and forbidding such operation upon the other streets of the…
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