New York Telephone Co. v. Dittman

This is a motion for an injunction restraining the defendants from interfering with the *61wires of the plaintiff. These wires are strung along a public highway in Islip, along which highway the defendants are moving a building, and are nineteen feet above the ground, the building being twenty-nine feet high. The defendants threaten to cut plaintiff’s wires unless plaintiff raises or removes them. These facts are undisputed. There is dispute as to whether the highway is a county or town highway, whether the removal of the building is an ordinary use of the street, and whether plaintiff’s wires…