City of Troy v. United Traction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the United Traction Company, from a judgment of the County Court of Rensselaer county in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 20th day of Hay, 1909, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial before the court without a jury for $850, with interest, penalty for the violation of a city ordinance.
1Opinion of the Court
Kellogg, J.:
By the judgment in question defendant is compelled to pay large penalties for not complying with the provisions of an ordinance of the city -requiring it to run its cars upon its Oakwood avenue line each way every ten minutes, while at the time the ordinance was passed there was in force a valid order made by the Public Service Commission, binding upon the city and the defendant, requiring the cars upon said line to run each way every fifteen minutes. Section 8 of the city ordinance of 1890, which became the franchise under which the defendant’s line is operated, requires the…
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