Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Louisville N. R. Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Gaston Gunter, Judge._ Bill by the Wqgtern Union Telegraph Company against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. Erom. decree rendered, complainant appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Gaston Gunter, Judge._ Bill by the Wqgtern Union Telegraph Company against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. Erom. decree rendered, complainant appeals. This is a bill filed by the Western Union Telegraph Company to enjoin the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company from cutting down, confiscating, or otherwise destroying an important line of interstate and intrastate telegraph from a point on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad where it crosses the Tennessee state line, along the main line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
Complainant files its bill of complaint: (1) To quiet its alleged title to a right of way’for its telegraph line continuously along defendant’s railroad right of way from the Tennessee line through Decatur, Montgomery, and Mobile to the Mississippi line; (2) for a writ of assistance or other proper writ to put complainant in possession of its alleged right of way on the west side of said railroad line between Montgomery and Decatur, and on the east side thereof between Hurricane and Mobile, and on the west side thereof between Decatur and the Tennessee line; (3) for a writ of injunction…
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