Middlesboro Home Telephone Co. v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Candid ge

Affirming’ in part and reversing in part.

For convenience the appellants, Middlesboro Home Telephone Company and Tri-State Telephone Company, will be referred to as the “telephone company,” and the appellee, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, will be referred to as the “railroad company.” The railroad company operates a line of railroad through the city of Middlesboro, Kentucky, its tracks crossing Longwood road, one of the streets of that municipality. The telephone company has a line of telephone extending along that street, and where it…