United Railroads v. City & County of San Francisco

The United Railroads of San Francisco, a public service- corporation operating street railway lines in San Francisco under certain franchises granted to its predecessors, had constructed a double track line on Market street from the ferry to Seventeenth street, a distance óf more than 20 blocks. When the cars of the company reach their destination at the foot of Market street, they turn on a loop, the loop being situated on the property of the state of California; but the complainant company has the right to operate under a revocable license of the board of harbor commissioners, in which body is vested the control of the state property at the ferry. Cars belonging to the municipality have operated on Market street, between Kearney street and the ferry, since November, 1912; the municipal cars, and what are called the “Sutter Street cars” operated by the complainant under an agreement to use tracks outside of, and parallel to, the tracks used by the United Railroads corporation, operating under franchise heretofore referred to. The municipal cars and the Sutter Street cars make the turn at the ferry urider an agreement to use a second or outer loop, on the state property, operating…