Holland Realty & Power Co. v. City of St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from. St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Rhodes E. Gave, Judge. (1) The power of the respondents to lay and maintain electric wires and cables in and through the public streets and alleys of the City of St. Louis is dependent upon obtaining the consent of the city therefor. R. S. 1909, sec. 3367; Lockwood v. Wabash Railroad Co., 122 Mo. 86; Grand Avenue Ry. Co. v. Lindell Ry.
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Appeal from. St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Rhodes E. Gave, Judge. (1) The power of the respondents to lay and maintain electric wires and cables in and through the public streets and alleys of the City of St. Louis is dependent upon obtaining the consent of the city therefor. R. S. 1909, sec. 3367; Lockwood v. Wabash Railroad Co., 122 Mo. 86; Grand Avenue Ry. Co. v. Lindell Ry. C'o., 148 Mo. 637. (2) The consent of abutting property owners to the laying and maintaining electric wires and cables in the public alleys cannot be substituted for the consent of the City of St: Louis required…
1Opinion of the Court
GOODE, J
This suit was filed by the Holland Realty & Power Company, a corporation (hereinafter called the Holland ^Company), to have the defendants enjoined from cutting, removing or in any way molesting a small cable and wires of plaintiff, used at first by the Holland Company and now by Seventh Street Realty & Power Company, to convey currents of electricity to á building owned by plaintiff and some adjacent buildings. The lot of plaintiff is on the west side of Seventh Street in the City of St. Louis, and is bounded by that street on the east and by alleys on the north, west and south. A…
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