Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. v. Railroad Commission
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane countj: E. Ray Stevests, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint, after a demurrer thereto had been sustained and the plaintiff had declined to plead over within the time granted by the court.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane countj: E. Ray Stevests, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint, after a demurrer thereto had been sustained and the plaintiff had declined to plead over within the time granted by the court. The action is an action brought under the provisions of sec. 1797m — 64, Stats., to vacate and set aside, as unlawful and unreasonable, an order of the defendant Commission purporting to fix certain rates at which street-car tickets should be sold in packages by the plaintiff over its lines in Milwaukee;…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, C. J.
We are much indebted to counsel for the illuminating briefs and able oral arguments with which we have been favored by both sides in this case. It is but just to say that our labors have been much lightened thereby.
The case, however, is not in itself complicated or difficult of statement. There is in fact but a single question, and that is whether the ordinances referred to in the statement of facts, so far as they specify the rates of fare which may be charged, constitute contracts which are protected by the state and federal constitutions from impairment.
On the part of the appellant the…
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