City of McKeesport v. Citizens Passenger Railway Co.

Citations

• 2 Pa. Super. 249
• 1896 Pa. Super. LEXIS 47

Syllabus

<p>Municipal laio — Street railways — Municipal consent — Police powers.</p> <p>A street railway must obtain consent of the municipality to lay its tracks and the municipality may impose terms. Consent having been given a railway company on certain terms imposed by the ordinance and accepted by the company, such ordinance does not exempt, on the ground of implied repeal, the railway company from liability to respond to the exactions of the police regulations imposed by the prior general ordinances.</p>