Commonwealth v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for suffering Broad Street in Boston to be obstructed by wooden posts, it being a highway which the city was bound to keep in repair. Trial, in the superior court, before Morton, J., who after a verdict of guilty, made a report of the case for determination by this court, the material part of which is as follows: “ The posts referred to are telegraph posts, and render the way inconvenient for travellers.
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Indictment for suffering Broad Street in Boston to be obstructed by wooden posts, it being a highway which the city was bound to keep in repair. Trial, in the superior court, before Morton, J., who after a verdict of guilty, made a report of the case for determination by this court, the material part of which is as follows: “ The posts referred to are telegraph posts, and render the way inconvenient for travellers. They were erected and maintained by the Insulated Lines Telegraph Company, a corporation established by the laws of New York and engaged in the business of telegraphing for the…
1Opinion of the CourtHoar, J.
The sixty-fourth chapter of the General Statutes defines the powers, privileges, duties, restrictions and liabilities of companies incorporated for the transmission of intelligence by electricity. The second section of that chapter authorizes “each company” to construct lines of electric telegraph upon and along the highways and public roads and across any waters within the state, by the erection of the posts and other fixtures necessary to sustain the wires of its lines, under the provisions of the following section ; but forbids the company to incommode the public use of highways, or public…
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