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Judge Ewing Make* an Iiupoi ant Ruling hi a Test Case.FAR REACHING DECISlOhUpholds the Louuctrs Power 1 Regulate Rute Schedules.CASE FAILS ON TECHNICALITihit the Results are a Great Advance In the 3-Cent Fare Campaign.Chicago, March 3,-JuiIbb Ewing IIhc superior court made a decision yns lerday of Xar-reacliing Importance i: ihc corning campaign for reduced siree eur fares. He upheld the right or flu city to logialuLe on the question of fare; and to i\x arbitrarily 5 cent standard as was dune in the general ordinance o March, mo. The Jogicnl effect o 3 mlge Eiving*s decision, street rail to; men say, is to sustain the power of the city council to fix a 0-oent far.', or ahor standard that It may decide to brreasonable.How the Decision Cauur.Veslerday's decision came about through a leslsiui fur damages brought by tfathuqfel 0. Dean against the Chicago General, or “McGsnn/’ Btre.H Railway company fur being ejected from one of the company's cum. 6£r. Jcaa was n punnoiigor .an ouo of the Lawdadale avenue cars nf the General company autl ii* order lu test the power of the city council to arbitrarily tlx fires ho was selected by tlais com punyas the victim of an attempted extortion A demand for a lt-centftre was Fade by tlm company’s conduuLor and us promptly refused by Mr. Detin. He was ejected from the car, and through h:« attorneys, Smith. Barton, brought auit for damages iu the superior court.tuition Of lUnintlffs Lawyers.VYlien the case came lu. rrial Mr. Dean’s lawyers argued that the city council had fixed the. rule of street car fares anywhere In the city limits at 5 cents and that the attempt Lu colient i ti-ee lit fare was illegal. A Homey Lyman M. Paine, for the “McGaim” coin pan yT put in a pfou contending that the leeis mure hail not authorised the city conn- lt;Gil of Chiago to fix the of Juris tn . be charged and collected by street rail- • way companies. It was also contended : that In jmd by an net of the legislature :■ entitled ‘An act lO establish aboard of « railroad and warehouse commissioners.’ ; approved April 1R, 1S7J, every railroad c
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Fort Wayne Evening Post
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Tue, Mar 03, 1896
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