East Boyer Telephone Co. v. Incorporated Town of Vail
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Crawford District Court. — Hon. M. E. Hutchinson, Judge. PROCEEDING to enjoin the defendant from interfering with the erection of telephone poles and wires in the town of Vail. From a ruling on a motion to strike certain paragraphs from 'the amended and substituted petition, the plaintiff appeals —
1Opinion of the Court
"Withrow, J.
I. The plaintiff as a telephone company desired entrance into the incorporated town of Vail that it might, as claimed by it, make connection between different of its lines extending from the north and south sides of the town into adjacent country, and thereby be better enabled to render service to its subscribers. Having received no permission to occupy the streets for that purpose, other than a claimed right under an act of the city council to which we will later refer, upon its attempt to so use the streets by planting its poles and stringing its wires, the officers of the town…
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