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DETROIT UNITED RAILWAY v. DETROIT

No. 666.

248 U.S. 429 (1919)

DETROIT UNITED RAILWAY v. CITY OF DETROIT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 13, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Elliott G. Stevenson, with whom Mr. John C. Donnelly, Mr. William L. Carpenter, Mr. P.J.M. Hally and Mr. Bernard F. Weadock were on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. Allan H. Frazer and Mr. Richard I. Lawson for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

The Detroit United Railway Company brought this action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to enjoin the City of Detroit from enforcing the provisions of an ordinance regulating street railway fares in that city. The ordinance was passed August 9, 1918. It is printed in the margin.1

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