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DETROIT UNITED RY. v. MICHIGAN

Nos. 1, 4.

242 U.S. 238 (1916)

DETROIT UNITED RAILWAY v. PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. DETROIT UNITED RAILWAY v. CITY OF DETROIT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 11, 1916.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Elihu Root, with whom Mr. John C. Donnelly, Mr. William L. Carpenter, Mr. Fred A. Baker and Mr. Henry L. Lyster were on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. P.J.M. Hally, with whom Mr. Harry J. Dingeman was on the brief, for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

These two cases involve identical questions, were argued together, and may be disposed of in a single opinion. They concern the rates of fare that may be charged by plaintiff in error upon certain street railway lines within the present limits of the City of Detroit, and in both cases it is insisted that the state court of last resort has given such an effect to statutes...

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