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Meralco Vs. Board Of Public Utility Commissioners 030 Phil 387

THE MANILA ELECTRIC RAILROAD AND LIGHT COMPANY, petitioner, vs. THE BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSIONERS, respondent.

G.R. No. 10241 | 1915-03-25

D E C I S I O N


MORELAND, J.:

This is a proceeding brought in this court under section 37 of Act No. 2307 to revoke an order of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners requiring the Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company to carry on its street cars, free of charge, secret service members of the police force of the city of Manila.

The city of Manila in the year 1903, by authority of Act No. 484, for a valuable consideration, and in and by virtue of its ordinance No. 44, granted to Charles M. Swift a franchise for the construction and maintenance of a street railway system for carrying passengers for hire in the city of Manila....