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CAN FIX THE FARESJudge Ewing Make?* an Import' ant Ruling J» ft Test Cuse.t\asiFAR REACHING DECISION.Upholds the Gouucll’s Power to Reguifite Rnte Schedules. .CASE FAILS ON TECHNICALITYRut the Results are a Great Advance In H»o 3-Cent Fare Campaign.KL'ld-ilwJitrr111CmcAUO, March Jmlae Ewing .. Ihc superior court made a decision yns lerday of far-readi ing Importance in the coming campaign for reduced street -Cur fares. He upheld the right or the \ city to logMaie on the question of fares j a and to fix arbitrarily 5 cent standard,' as was done in the general ordinance of March, 181)0. The Jogiiuil effect of Judge J living’s decision, street railway men «$ to sustain the power- of the city council io fix a 3 oeut fm\ or any ether standard ihni It may decide to bn rcii you able.How the Decision On on.*.Vosterday’s decision came about Ui rough a test sun for dam ages brought by Nathaniel C. Yipun against the Chicago General, or McCann/’ Btreut Railway company for being ejected from one of the company's curs. 6£r. Dean was n puayonger on oiid of the Lawdadale a venue cars nf the General company aud in order to test the power of the city council to arbitrarily tlx fires l.u wag selected by tlm company 02 Die victim of an attempted extortion A demand for a h-centfire was F-ade by Llm company's conductor and as promptly refused by Air. Deun. Ho was ejected from the cur, and through b-.» attorneys. Smith \ Barton, brought suit for damages in the superior court. luslrlDtt of I'lofntlffs Lawyer*.VYlien the ease came In. rrial Air.Ue an‘a lawyers argued that the city council had fixed the. rale of street earfaces anywhere In the eity 1 ini its at 5cents and that the attempt ilt; collect n ti-ceut fare was illegal. Attorney Lyman M. Paine, for the “AlcGuim company, put in a idea contending that the legis’ mure hud not authorised the city council of Chicago to fix Uio rata of Turn tn be charged and collected by street railway companies. It was also contended tint In and by sin net of the legislature *mitled 'An act lo establish a board of railroad and wuichmise commissionr?rs.T approved April 18. 1S7J, every railroad-o
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Fort Wayne Evening Post
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Tue, Mar 03, 1896
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