Oliver v. City of Cincinnati

On March 14, 1917, the council of the city of Cincinnati passed ordinance No. 96-1917, pertaining to the street railway franchise and the operation of the rapid transit loop authorized by said ordinance to be constructed by the Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners. It provided that a special election should be held on Tuesday, April 17, 1917, of which due notice was to be given as required by law. The project, submitted to the voters at said election, prevailed. On the day after the passage of the ordinance, the plaintiff, a taxpayer of the city of Cincinnati, requested the city solicitor, in…