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ARMOUR & CO. v. DALLAS

No. 149.

255 U.S. 280 (1921)

41 S.Ct. 291

65 L.Ed. 635

ARMOUR & COMPANY ET AL. v. CITY OF DALLAS ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 28, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Francis Marion Etheridge, with whom Mr. Ralph W. Shauman, Mr. Samuel B. Cantey, and Mr. Joseph Manson McCormick were on the brief, for appellants:

Mr. Thomas J. Freeman and Mr. James J. Collins, with whom Mr. Allen Charleton, Mr. Carl B. Calloway and Mr. Rhodes S. Baker, were on the briefs, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

In 1872 the Texas and Pacific Railway Company built its single track main line to the west on a street in the village of Dallas, then as now called Pacific Avenue. In 1890 the City granted to the Company a fifty-year franchise to double track its railroad on that street. In the latter year the population of Dallas was 35,057; now it is 158,976;1 and the existence and operation of...

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