Village of East Rochester v. Rochester Gas & Electric Corp.

This is an action brought by the Village of East Rochester as plaintiff for a declaratory judgment to determine its right to use the streets of the village to construct a municipal fighting plant for the purpose of lighting the streets and to sell electricity to private consumers, as against a claim by the Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation that the latter had acquired an exclusive right for such use of the streets prior to the incorporation of the village. No right is claimed by the village to take or interfere in any way with the physical equipment now used by the Rochester Gas & Electric…