East Tennessee Telephone Co. v. Board of Councilmen

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson—

Reversing.

The East Tennessee Telephone Company, through its agent C. E. Taylor, desiring to go into business in Frankfort, applied to the council, which on April 11, 1881, adopted the following resolution:

“The petition of Mr. C. E. Taylor, for permission to the - Telephone Company, to erect telephone poles on different streets of the city and to carry it across the city bridge, was presented and granted.”

Under this authority the Telephone Company erected its poles, established a telephone exchange, and begun business on June 16, 1881. On July 28,…