 Telegraph and telephone poles and wires are not used to facilitate the use of the streets where they are erected for travel and transportation, or if so, very indirectly so ; whereas the poles and wires here in question are directly ancillary to the uses...  The Law of Electric Wires in Streets and Highways - Page 157by Edward Quinton Keasbey - 1900 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 798 pages
...the streets for travel and transportation, — "Whereas the poles and wires of the railroad company are directly ancillary to the uses of the street as...such, in that they communicate the power by which the cars are propelled." This distinction Judge Dillon has said " to be so fine as to be almost impalpable,"... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1150 pages
...so, whereas the poles and wires here in question are directly ancillary to the uses of the streets as such, in that they communicate the power by which the street cars are propelled.' The derision of the supreme court of Pennsylvania in Lockhart v. Railroad Co., 139 Pa. St. 419,21 Atl.... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1890 - 894 pages
...so ; whereas the poles and wires here in question are directly ancillary to the uses of the streets as such, in that they communicate the power by which the street, cars are propelled." Injunction refused and bill dismissed. The distinction last mentioned is so fine as to be almost impalpable,... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1890 - 922 pages
...so ; whereas the poles and wires here in question are directly ancillary to the uses of the streets as such, in that they communicate the power by which the street cars are propelled." Injunction refused and bill dismissed. The distinction last mentioned is so fine «s to be almost impalpable,... | |
 | National Electric Light Association. Convention - Electric lighting - 1892 - 458 pages
...so ; whereas the poles and wires here in question are directly ancillary to the uses of the streets as such, in that they communicate the power by which the street cars are propelled." In the purely technical field all obstacles have been overcome. Like Perry, " We have met the enemy... | |
 | Oscar Terry Crosby, Louis Bell - Electric railroads - 1892 - 412 pages
...whereas the poles and wires of the railway company are directly ancillary to the use of the streets as such, in that they communicate the power by which the . street cars are propelled." As a general rule, an occupation of the streets otherwise than for travel and transportation is presumptively... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - Electric utilities - 1895 - 932 pages
...transportation, or very indirectly so ; whereas the poles and wires of this electric railway street car company are directly ancillary to the uses of the street,...the power by which the street cars are propelled. It has been held, for reasons which were considered irrefragable, that a telegraph erected by a railroad... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - Electric utilities - 1895 - 952 pages
...Co. whereas the poles and wires here in question are directly ancillary to the uses of the streets as such, in that they communicate the power by -which the street cars are propelled.' The decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in Lockhart v. Railroad Co., 139 Pa St. 419 ; 21... | |
 | Railroad law - 1896 - 746 pages
...so ; whereas the poles and wires here in question are directly ancillary to the uses of the streets, as such, in that they communicate the power by which the street cars are propelled." Commenting on this case, Judge Dillon observes : " The distinction mentioned is so fine as to be almost... | |
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