224 Pa. 544 | Pa. | 1909
Opinion by
Prior to the organization of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, here the appellee, the lines of street railways in the city of Philadelphia were owned and operated by several independent companies. With a view to unify these to the extent of bringing them under a common system and management, the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company by lease and otherwise acquired control of all of them. This control, while it allows each company to retain its separate existence, commits to the traction company the operation, management and regulation of each line of railway. The several companies differed both in their charter rights, and in their municipal privileges and obligations as well. To make these latter fixed, fair and uniform, to supersede former regulations, and to define and regulate the relations thereafter to be observed between the city and the railways — so reads the agreement— the contract of July 1,1907, was entered into between the city and the traction company. In its entirety the contract does
The decree is affirmed and the bill dismissed at the costs of appellant.