Grand Rapids E. L. & P. Co. v. Grand Rapids E. E. L. & F. G. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Michigan
In Equity. Motion to dissolve preliminary injunction. The Grand Rapids Electric Light & Power Company filed a bill to' perpetually enjoin the Grand Rapids Edison Electric Light & Fuel Gas Company and others from erecting poles and wires in the streets of Grand Rapids, and obtained a temporary injunction.
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In Equity. Motion to dissolve preliminary injunction. The Grand Rapids Electric Light & Power Company filed a bill to' perpetually enjoin the Grand Rapids Edison Electric Light & Fuel Gas Company and others from erecting poles and wires in the streets of Grand Rapids, and obtained a temporary injunction. The city of Grand Rapids had, by ordinance in 1880, given complainant exclusive right to use the streets for that purpose for 15 years, and in 1887, by ordinance, had given defendant the same privileges, but not exclusively. Const. Mich. Art. 4, § 38, provides that the legislature may confer…
1Opinion of the CourtJackson, J.
The leading and material facts in relation to the matter in controversy, and on which rest the proper determination of the question involved in the present motion, are, briefly, these: By the charter of the city of Grand Ilapids the common council thereof were invested with the following powers and duties relating to the matters under consideration:
“Tit. 3, Sec. 10. The common council * * * shall have power withih said city to enact, make, continue, establish, modify, amend and repeal such ordinances, by-laws, and regulations as they deem desirable, within said city, for the following…
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