CLEVELAND ELECTRIC RY. CO. v. CLEVELAND

Nos. 197, 321.

204 U.S. 116 (1907)

CLEVELAND ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. CLEVELAND AND THE FOREST CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. CITY OF CLEVELAND v. CLEVELAND ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1907.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William B. Sanders and Mr. John W. Warrington, with whom Mr. Andrew Squire was on the brief, for Cleveland Electric Railway Company.

Mr. Newton D. Baker for the city of Cleveland.

Mr. D.C. Westenhaver for the Forest City Railway Company.


MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

Out of these various ordinances and resolutions arise the difficulties suggested in this case. The facts are somewhat complicated by reason of their number, and the inferences to be drawn from them are not always perfectly plain and certain. The complainant contends that, by reason of the action of the city council and the acceptance...

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