City of Indianapolis v. Navin

On Petition for Rehearing.

In this case the principal contention was that the act of March 6, 1897, amending section 9 of the act to provide for the incorporation of street railroad companies, was inoperative and void because in contravention of section 13 of article 11 of the constitution of this State. In arriving at the conclu*157sion reached in the original opinion, we had the benefit of the opinion of the circuit justice, delivered in the case of the Central Trust Co. v. Citizens’ Street R. R. Co., reported in 80 Fed., 218, and also of the very able argument addressed to the justice in that…