Miller v. Chicago Transit Authority

Mr. Presiding Justice Lews

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order entered October 18, 1949, restraining defendant Chicago Transit Authority from enforcing and continuing in effect a certain ordinance to increase fares on transportation facilities of defendant.

Plaintiffs filed a verified complaint alleging in substance that they are residents of the Chicago Metropolitan Area and users of the facilities furnished by defendant a municipal corporation; that defendant passed a certain ordinance #49-5 effective October 13, 1949, providing for the increase in…