State ex rel. City of Seattle v. Seattle & Rainier Valley Railway Co.

Citations

• 113 Wash. 684
• 15 A.L.R. 1194
• 194 P. 820
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 578

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations (311, 360) — Street Railroads (1-1)— Franchises and Privileges — Abrogation—Public Service Commission. The Public Service Commission Act of 1911 does not abrogate a franchise ordinance passed prior to the Public Service Commission Act of 1911 granting the predecessors in interest of the appellant the right to operate street railway lines upon certain streets in the city in part consideration of which the street railway company was required to carry city policemen and firemen in uniform free while in the discharge of their official duties; the legislature having vested the city with the whole of the state’s police power touching the subject-matter which has not been interfered with by the public service commission law.</p>