City of Wheeling v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Questions Certified from Circuit Court, Ohio County. Bill by the City of Wheeling against the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company and the Consolidated Telephone Company. Demurrer to bill overruled, and question certified by circuit court on joint application of the parties.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEENBARGER, PRESIDENT :
On fifteen stated grounds, some of which do not differ materially, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company- *210and the Consolidated Telephone Company, both West Virginia corporations, jointly demurred to the amended bill of the City of Wheeling, hied in lieu of its original • bill on which a temporary injunction had been granted, praying the relief sought by said original bill, namely, an adjudication of title in itself to all of the property of the Consolidated Telephone Company, by forfeiture under and by virtue of a clause of a franchise granted to the National…
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