OMAHA STREET RY. v. INT. COM. COMM.

No. 458.

230 U.S. 324 (1913)

OMAHA & COUNCIL BLUFFS STREET RAILWAY COMPANY v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 9, 1913.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John Lee Webster, with whom Mr. Frederic D. McKenney was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Charles W. Needham for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Denison, with whom Mr. Thurlow M. Gordon, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE LAMAR delivered the opinion of the court.

The Omaha & Council Bluffs Railway & Bridge Company was chartered as a Street Railroad Company under the laws of Iowa. It owned street car lines in Council Bluffs and, in 1887, was authorized by Congress to construct a bridge across the Missouri River and to operate thereon "steam, cable and street cars." (March 3, 1887, 24 Stat. 501, c. 356.) The Omaha & Council...

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