Case ID: ohio-cir-dec_12/html/0573-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Swing, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STREET RAILWAYS.
    [Hamilton Circuit Court,
    1896.]
    Cox, Smith and Swing, JJ.
    Cincinnati v. Cincinnati Street Railway Co.
    Valid Extension op Street Railway.
    An ordinance granting an extension of a street railway as an electric passenger 'road to run in different directions than the original route, and providing that no increase of rates of fare shall be imposed, etc., is valid.
    Appeal.
    
      Corporation Counsel, for city.
    Paxton, Warrington & Boutet; Foraker & Prior, and Kittredge & Wilby, for street railway company.
    This was the suit to enjoin the operation oí the Fairmount line of street railway as an extension of route 13 (the Avondale line). The case was heard below on demurrer to the petition. The demurrer was sustained.
   Swing, J.

We think the judgment of the superior court in this case should be affirmed for the reasons stated by Smith, J., in his very clear and learned opinion found in Cincinnati v. Railway Co., 1 Dec. 591 (31 B. 308).