GEORGIA RY. CO. v. DECATUR

No. 463.

262 U.S. 432 (1923)

GEORGIA RAILWAY & POWER COMPANY ET AL. v. TOWN OF DECATUR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 4, 1923.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Walter T. Colquitt, with whom Mr. Luther Z. Rosser and Mr. J. Prince Webster were on the briefs, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. J. Howell Green and Mr. Frank Harwell for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

The defendant in error, plaintiff below, brought suit against the Power and Electric Companies, defendants below, to enjoin them from increasing the rate of fare on a line of street railway between Decatur and the City of Atlanta. Hackman and others intervened, asserting that they resided near Atlanta and used certain car lines of defendant going to and from Atlanta, upon which a seven-cent fare was exacted...

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