Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Ohio Postal Telegraph Cable Co.
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Crawford County. On August 30, 1899, the defendant in error, The Ohio Postal Telegraph Cable Co., filed in the Probate Court of Crawford County, its petition against the plaintiff in error, and the holders of certain trust deeds securing certain bonded indebtedness owing by the railway company, the purpose and 'prayer of which petition were to obtain by appropriation, the right of The Ohio Postal Telegraph Cable Co., to enter upon and occupy,…
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Error to the Circuit Court of Crawford County. On August 30, 1899, the defendant in error, The Ohio Postal Telegraph Cable Co., filed in the Probate Court of Crawford County, its petition against the plaintiff in error, and the holders of certain trust deeds securing certain bonded indebtedness owing by the railway company, the purpose and 'prayer of which petition were to obtain by appropriation, the right of The Ohio Postal Telegraph Cable Co., to enter upon and occupy, for the erection and operation of its telegraph line, five feet of the right of way of the plaintiff in error, from the…
1Opinion of the Court
The controversy between the parties to this case opened in the Probate Court of Crawford County in August, 1899, and it has been carried on with unremitting vigor through that and the intervening courts, and its various phases have been elaborately presented to this court in briefs.
Some of the arguments and a large amount of statistical and historical matter found in the almost unlimited brief for plaintiff in error are wholly superfluous, and we are asked to pass upon numerous questions which counsel discuss therein, many of which *376are no longer material, and tend only to obscure, if not to…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- In Re PottsSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- St. Louis & Cairo Railroad v. Postal Telegraph Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1898
- Postal Tel. Cable Co. of Utah v. Oregon S. L. R.Utah Supreme Court · 1901
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- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1904
- Memphis State Line Railroad v. Forest Hill Cemetery Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1906
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1915
- Town of South Tucson v. Tucson Gas, Electric Light & Power Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1945
- In Re Appropriation by Ohio Turnpike CommissionOhio Court of Appeals · 1953
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