Chester City v. Union Railway Co.

Citations

• 218 Pa. 24
• 66 A. 1107
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 446

Syllabus

<p>Street railways — Municipal consent — Gondition—Arbitra —Equity.</p> <p>Where a city by ordinance gives to a street railway right to use a particular street, but reserves in the ordi: to grant to any other railway company the right to use tl and the mayor, as a condition of giving his assent to requires the railway company to enter into an agree: any dispute that it may have with another company to to the use of the street may be granted, the compan; quently allege that the agreement for arbitration ordinance was not binding on it, and that, even ment of submission is revocable.</p> <p>If the ordinance, in such a case, contains no agreement to arbitrate cannot be construed as to forfeit the franchises, because the compan; an arbitrator was not able to carry through of its arbitrator, acting in good faith, bei: second arbitrator on the choice of the thin the rthe right ' appointed on account free with the</p> <p>Where the city acting under the ordina another railway company to use the thereafter maintain a bill in equifr mit the second company a case is the grantee i:</p>