State ex rel. Evans v. Orgill

The legislature in Sees. 4224 and 4227 G. C. having clearly discriminated between an ordinance of a general nature and one granting a franchise, and having required only the former to be published, it follows that the ordinances of the city of Cleveland passed December 6, 1909, granting franchises to the Cleveland Underground Rapid Transit Railroad Company required no publication. Those ordinances having been duly accepted by said company, the subsequent attempted repeal thereof by the council January 17, 1910, was ineffective to abrogate the contract then already completed. Our conclusion is…