Town of Lindsay v. Cooke County Electric Cooperative Ass'n

OPINION

LANGDON, Justice.

This suit was brought by the Town of Lindsay to require the Cooke County Electric Cooperative Association to remove its facilities, equipment and property from the public rights-of-way, streets, roads or alleys within the incorporated limits of the Town of Lindsay. The Town of Lindsay was incorporated in 1959. Ten years after such incorporation, in 1970, the Town of Lindsay requested the Cooke County Electric Cooperative Association to remove its lines and equipment from the public streets and alleys of the Town because it did not have a franchise from the City…